Pier 45 at Hudson River Park — Attraction in New York

It was 1:07 pm on the first Summer Saturday in New York City, the sun defrosting the city after a biblical winter. I put my Whole Foods tote bag down amidst a sea of women tanning at Pier 45, took off my black Banana Republic long sleeve t-shirt to use as my towel, and pulled out my book to signal to everyone that I’m simply nothing more than a bookworm. I felt like LeBron.

I had my wired apple headphones in with no music playing, as I’m first team all eavesdrop. I sat there, pulled my shorts up to make sure everyone could see my thigh tattoos, and began judging patrons for reading off of a kindle. Oh me? I’m just more of a physical book kind of guy.

I saw large groups of people playing cards, laughing, sipping wine, and having a genuinely good time. A rage began to fill within me. How do you even know 10 people that you would go to a park with on a nice summer day?

The rage morphed to jealousy, as I began dreaming of having enough friends to play Uno with. I ran through scenarios in my head, laughing at my imaginary friends as I put down an ice cold draw 4. “Wow Johnny! You might be the best Uno player alive. How did you get so good!?!”

Once this fantasy wore off, I began drumming up another one where a prime Eva Mendez was sitting next to me and said “Hi I’m so sorry to interrupt, but what book are you reading?”

I pretended to be caught off guard, paused my wired headphones, and responded “oh me? It’s called ‘Before the Coffee Gets Cold’ by Toshikazu Kawaguchi… Yeah he’s a Japanese author, I got it when I was in Kyoto… Oh you haven’t been to Japan!?! That’s crazy haha it’s my favorite place in the world…”

But yeah, this is a nice place to chill and soak up some sun.

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Pier 45 at West and Christopher Street is part of the Hudson River Park Trust that comprised of 5 miles of riverfront recreational fun from Battery Park City to the Hudson Yards.

Pier 45 was also known as the Christopher Street Piers because there was a few old and rotted piers that one can sit and enjoy the Hudson River, the boats on the Hudson River, the New Jersey shores and the magnificent sunsets.

It is much more beautiful nowadays, but less character. Call me old fashion, but I prefer character to beautiful.

The sunsets was my favorite of all favorites.

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Great place to see the sunset or have a picnic. Lots of people come for the bar and brick oven pizza or to get on the boat parties around NYC. There is Tuesday night sunset salsa where people come and dance salsa on 2. On Saturday nights in the summertime all the way through October and there is Zouk at the pier which is all the way down by the pier where you can do Brazilian Zouk that comes from the forbidden dance Lambada. It can can breezy and fun with hang out where all the action happens. Watch out for the Canadian geese, they may all crowd around your picnic setup and try to attack you for...