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Friends of the High Line

By Stephen Duffy 12/07/11 4:18pm

Gettin' High Line

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Topsoil, Trains and Toilets On High Line Wish List

"I'd love to see a locomotive up there," Chelsea resident Grant Anderson said before a packed auditorium at P.S. 11 last night. His proposal for the third and final section of the High Line, encircling the Hudson Yards, was met with a burst of spontaneous applause.

Not only did it have the proper fanciful feel of the park that seems to float, as if by magic, above the hubbub of Manhattan, but it also had its antecedents.  "One of the great things about the High Line is you still get a sense of history," he continued. "Just imagine the feeling—looking up and seeing a train and boxcar down the street." Read More

2 By Matt Chaban 12/05/11 6:02pm

Mr. Ross' Neighborhood

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Your Line? My Line? Help Design the High Line

That was the easy part.

Now that the High Line has become a smash success, Friends of the High Line has to decided what to do with the third and final section of the elevated park, which surround Hudson Yards. After fighting for decades to preserve and then transform the old rail line, it was not clear this section of track would be preserved or replaced by some alternative park, as the city worked to redevelop the site.

The Related Company and the Bloomberg administration both agreed it should be, and now that their work is underway in creating a new Baltimore on the West Side of Manhattan, so too is the Friends' job of figuring out what should surround it.

That all starts tomorrow night. Read More

By Chloe Malle 9/22/10 3:00am

Shindigger

Pace’s Half Century, Under the Highline

Last Thursday evening, after a flash flood of biblical proportions, Arne Glimcher greeted arriving guests like Noah shepherding animals onto his ark. But unlike the guests on Noah's Ark, the guests at Mr. Glimcher's 50th anniversary party did not differ in species and were all of the art-world genus, differentiated only by breed--artist, collector, curator, Read More

By Reid Pillifant 10/19/09 10:56pm

High Line Keeps Going

The full, 1.5-mile vision for the High Line Park inched one step closer to completion today, with the first concrete indication that the city will acquire the northern third of the elevated rail line.

At a City Planning Commission meeting this afternoon, chair Amanda Burden said the commission is preparing the paperwork for the city Read More

By Eliot Brown 12/05/08 6:21pm

Save the Spur: The Movie

Here’s another shot at Related Companies from Friends of the High Line, which made a short YouTube video advocating preservation of the High Line’s “spur” running through part of the West Side rail yards along 30th Street and across 10th Avenue, which Related has said it may want to demolish.

The meeting in Read More

By Eliot Brown 6/12/08 11:53pm

On the High Line! Photos Show a Park Ready for Its Plants

Construction seems to be moving along on the High Line, the 1930s rail viaduct in Chelsea that's being converted to a park, as we were given a tour earlier this week and snapped a few photos along the way. Section 1, which runs from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street, is slated to open before the Read More