Take The High Line
NYC’s most innovative public open space
The High Line holds a unique position in the broader urban landscape, not merely as an architectural curiosity but as an expression of hope for the future.
The High Line is an internationally acclaimed public park built on a historic freight rail viaduct on Manhattan’s West Side.
This greenway has revitalized New York’s West Side and is the City’s most unusual public space.
The High Line was previously a railroad in a slaughterhouse district.
Tenth Ave had become known as Death Avenue because of frequent accidents.
In the 1930s, the local government decided to elevate the tracks above street level and so the High Line was born.
By the 1980s, the High Line had become obsolete and fallen into disrepair. Local residents petitioned to remove it.
Joshua David and Robert Hammond founded the Friends of the High Line in 1999 to turn it into an elevated public park.
It is a vision of a revitalized, more sustainable downtown core brimming with activity and commerce and accessible by foot or bikeway.
Below, the kind of development typically associated with high-end living presses ever upward.
