NYC’s 10 most important buildings of the past decadeDesignboom Celebrate 20 Years And Share Their Favorite BuildingsWhat We Can Learn from New York's High Line Park About Better Housing in AustraliaBest architecture of the 2010s: the decade’s top buildingsLooking, Moving, Gathering: Functions of the High LineHigh Line wins 2017 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban DesignAn Appraisal; Gardens in the Air Where the Rail Once RanThe High Line’s Last Section Opens Tomorrow, and Here’s a First LookThe Final Segment of the High Line Is Stunningly RefreshingEyes Above the Street: The High Line’s Second InstallmentÉtonnants jardins: les jardins suspendus de la High Line (Amazing Gardens: the Hanging Gardens of the High Line)Lush Hillock and Public-Art Plinth Culminate NYC’s High LineThird High Line Phase Sets Tone for Neighboring DevelopmentThe High Line Isn’t Just a Sight to See; It’s Also an Economic Dynamo The High Line is an elevated freight rail line transformed into a public park on Manhattan’s West Side. Know the rules and regulations of the area.Access points are at:  Gansevoort Street, West 14th Street (elevator access), West 16th Street (elevator access), West 18th Street, West 20th Street, West 23rd Street (elevator access), West 26th Street, West 28th Street, and West 30th Street (elevator access), 11th Avenue (at 30th Street), 34th Street.“If the newest, last stretch of the High Line doesn’t make you fall in love with New York all over again, I really don’t know what to say. Completed in September 2014, the third and final section loops around the More than 2M people visited the High Line during its first year; as of September, 2014, the number had grown to 5M per year. A sheer glass wall looms thirty feet overhead; the design seems intended to remind the viewer this is the historic Meatpacking District. For a printable walkway map use the Web Map link on this (or the Friends web site). It is owned by the City of New York, and maintained and operated by Friends of the High Line. Section 2, extending the walkway to West 30th Street, was opened two years later. The Friends of the Highline web site contains a Bloom List updated by the season.

Much has changed, May 2015 the There is much to see along the initial one mile walkway – from striking views of the distant Hudson River and iconic Manhattan buildings poking skyward, to gorgeous landscapes at your feet. The long paving units have tapered ends that comb into planting beds creating a textured, “pathless” landscape where the public can meander in unscripted ways. The Spur, the last section of the High Line that extends east along 30th St. and terminates above 10th Ave., uniting the park with Hudson Yards. “It’s still lush, still natural, but we used different trees and other species,” Mr. Oudolf said on the phone from his home in Hummelo, the Netherlands.The wild, untouched section is reached only after crossing the 11th Avenue bridge, where a wide central path rises gently over seven lanes of streaming southbound traffic, and lifts the heart with its dramatic views up and down Manhattan’s grid.It is a relief to leave behind the old tamed High Line, truly a garden now, complete with a lawn. (From 1934 to 1980 an elevated rail line, now called the High Line, connected the rail yards of mid-town Manhattan to an industrial district along the lower West Side of Manhattan. High Line visitors can enjoy free programming for adults and families, extensive gardens, a variety of food options from local vendors and much more. Like Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim museum in Spain, it has spread a dream, albeit largely a pipe dream, around the world: how one exceptional design — in this case, a work of landscape architecture — might miraculously alter a whole neighborhood, even a whole city’s fortunes.”_____________________________________________________________________________ When the High Line at the Rail Yards, the final section of the elevated park, opens on Sept. 21, we will no longer have to stop at 30th Street and stare longingly through the construction gate at the Queen Anne’s Lace blooming in wild profusion along the old tracks.We can walk out on a wide plaza made of the familiar concrete planks, tapered so that plants appear to be pushing up out of the crevices. Founded by neighborhood residents, Friends of the High Line partnered with elected leaders, government officials, and supporters to preserve the historic structure and fund the transformation of the High Line … Through a strategy of agri–tecture—part agriculture, part architecture—the High Line surface is digitized into discrete units of paving and planting which are assembled along the 1.5 miles into a variety of gradients from 100% paving to 100% soft, richly vegetated biotopes. Joshua David and Robert Hammond, Co-Founders of Friends of the High Line, were interviewed on NPR's Elevated NYC rails-to-trail park with city views on the lower west side of Manhattan. It translates the biodiversity that took root after it fell into ruin in a string of site–specific urban micro-climates along the stretch of railway that include sunny, shady, wet, dry, windy, and sheltered spaces. High Line - Elevated NYC Park-Rail Trail From 1934 to 1980 an elevated rail line, now called the High Line, connected the rail yards of mid-town Manhattan to an industrial district along the lower West Side of Manhattan. It spills into a feral grove of big-tooth aspen trees on 34th Street.It’s hard to believe now that some New Yorkers once thought renovating the decrepit elevated rail line was a lousy idea. Elevated NYC rails-to-trail park with city views on the lower west side of Manhattan.