High Line Exhibitionist
by Allen Beatty
Title
High Line Exhibitionist
Artist
Allen Beatty
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Photograph - Photographs
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The High Line Park (shortened as the High Line, which is also used to refer to the viaduct itself) is a 1-mile New York City linear park built on a 1.45-mile section of a disused New York Central Railroad spur, the West Side Line. The railroad line has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway and rails-to-trails park, which was inspired by the 3-mile Promenade plantee a similar project in Paris completed in 1993.
The High Line Park uses the disused southern portion of the West Side Line running to the Lower West Side of Manhattan. It currently runs from Gansevoort Street, three blocks below 14th Street, in the Meatpacking District, to 30th Street, through Chelsea. An unopened section runs to the northern edge of the West Side Yard on 34th Street, near the Javits Convention Center; a spur extends from the 30th Street junction to Tenth Avenue. Formerly, the High Line went as far south as a railroad terminal to Spring Street just north of Canal Street, but the lower section was demolished in 1960.
Repurposing of the railway into an urban park began construction in 2006, with the first phase opening in 2009 and the second phase opening in 2012. The third and final phase will open in the fall of 2014. The project has spurred real estate development in the neighborhoods which lie along the line.
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September 3rd, 2014
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