Highline: It may be named for the old rail line that passed through this onetime industrial neighborhood, but Highline and its high-concept design makes all stops in the post-“Sex and the City” Meatpacking District. These three floors all owe Miami for its whitewashed design and Merrill Lynch for its white bread following. A trend-seeking weekender crowd frequents the upstairs dining quarters where they kick back on beds sipping $11 specialty cocktails and dining on well prepared and inexpensive Thai food. The downstairs “pool lounge” can be tasty too, thanks to progressive post-disco DJs on Friday who seem to scare off hedge-fund alpha types. Down here, there’s sometimes a gay crowd, which one wouldn’t expect to be so uncommon in an area called the Meatpacking District. |
