Stair Access to 10th Avenue from High Line, NYC

The High Line was built in the 1930s, as part of a massive public-private infrastructure project called the West Side Improvement. It lifted freight traffic 30 feet in the air, removing dangerous trains from the streets of Manhattan's largest industrial district. No trains have run on the High Line since 1980. Friends of the High Line, a community-based non-profit group, formed in 1999 when the historic structure was under threat of demolition. Friends of the High Line works in partnership with the City of New York to preserve and maintain the structure as an elevated public park.

The project gained the City's support in 2002. The High Line south of 30th Street was donated to the City by CSX Transportation Inc. in 2005. The design team of landscape architects James Corner Field Operations, with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, created the High Line's public landscape with guidance from a diverse community of High Line supporters. Construction on the park began in 2006. The first section, from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street, is projected to open in June 2009.

James Corner Field Operations will oversee phase 2 of development (from 20th to 30th streets) which is scheduled to be completed Spring 2011:
www.fieldoperations.net/

More about High Line Park:

www.thehighline.org/about/high-line-history

www.thehighline.org/galleries/images

Taken in: United States / New York / New York / Meat Packing District (show map)

Taken on: July 17, 2010

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