The High Line is located on the West Side of Manhattan. The first section runs from Gansevoort Street (in the Meatpacking District), to West 20th Street in Chelsea which is between 10th & 11th Avenues.
Some background of the Highline:
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 recently was opened.
Here are some photos:
A view of the Lackawanna Tower in Hoboken, NJ.
Been seeing this everywhere, anyone know whos work this is?
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