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Items from Rodarte's eagerly anticipated Target line will be available at a Target to Go pop-up under* the High Line next week, reports The Cut. The line won't hit stores until the... READ MORE»
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 to purchase the stretch--between 30th and 34th Streets and the spur over Tenth Avenue--all of which is currently owned by... READ MORE»
The Whitney Museum has signed a contract with the New York City Economic Development Corporation to buy space for a new museum near the High Line entrance. At $18 million, the price tag was about half the property's appraised value. The Whitney has been trying for years to expand beyond its Marcel Breuer-designed building on the Upper East Side, and had been thwarted by uptown neighbors before reaching an agreement for this space three... READ MORE»
Pouring rain: bad for walking in the park, but apparently good for apartment hunting. Broker William Landhauser said that he had seen noticeably more people than usual at his Sunday open house, a Chelsea condo built by Douglaston Development just a few blocks from the High... READ MORE»
“Oh, here’s Donna Karan! We gotta let her in!” hissed a frantic publicist atop the newly opened High Line Park, even as Parks Department officials were turning away a steady stream of latecomers to the park’s opening bash, held atop its 16th Street section on Monday, June 15.... READ MORE»
Manhattan's Community Board 4 held a forum Wednesday night about the Related Companies' plans for developing the West Side Rail Yards--a site adjacent to the new High Line Park, which opened to the public on Monday to rave... READ MORE»
On the evening of Monday, June 15, at 6 p.m., the High Line in Chelsea will host a big opening party to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the structure and the 10th anniversary of the the city's efforts to revive it. It will honor benefactors like actor Edward Norton; IAC chairman Barry Diller and his wife, designer Diane von Furstenberg; and hedge fund director Philip Falcone and wife Lisa... READ MORE»
While the bushes are blooming on the soon-to-be-opened southern section of the High Line, a battle is blossoming at City Hall over the fate of the line’s northern section. The battle spawned a rally earlier this week, as activists on behalf of the park continue to demand public supervision of the line's northern spur. On Tuesday morning, about 70 supporters of the High Line Park donned bright red “Save the High Line”... READ MORE»
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 the video was a community board forum on Monday night, where Related presented a small zoning change for the eastern... READ MORE»
Tishman Speyer, the newly-chosen developers of the West Side rail yards, would like to eliminate the northernmost spur of the High Line. Friends of the High Line president and co-founder Robert Hammond doesn't believe it's going to happen—after all, he's already overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the conversion of the elevated railway into a new city park. When he first went to Mayor Bloomberg, he said, "The Mayor said 'Don't show us pretty pictures.... READ MORE»
Halcyon Asset Management recently picked up a set of two properties next to the High Line for $48 million, 511 West 25th Street and 521-541 West 25th Street, according to city records. So is the firm, as are so many landowners in the neighborhood, planning to shed the former industrial buildings-turned art galleries for new high-end apartments on the site? Not quite, says Halcyon COO Thomas... READ MORE»
The allure of the High Line seems to be inspiring nearby landowners to grip their air rights tight, causing what some developers see as a shortage of development rights that could slow construction in the area surrounding the viaduct-turned-parkland. The Real Estate Board of New York, responding to the concerns of multiple de... READ MORE»
Laurence Gluck apparently has an eye for the High Line. Mr. Gluck’s Stellar Management just paid $161 million for the large warehouse-like building at 450 West 16th Street, which borders the rail viaduct-turned parkland, according to city records. The building, at eight stories and 286,000 square feet, according to PropertyShark, is home to Milk Studios, which offers space for artists.... READ MORE»
“I’m a little biased, but I think it’s great,” said Chelsea resident Brandon Sorlie of the High Line, the West Side “park in the sky” which has captured the philanthropic imagination of the city’s social and fashionable types. Mr. Sorlie’s boyfriend, Rick Little, is the operations director for Friends of the High Line, the rail-bed’s indefatigable troupe of fundraisers, so Mr. Sorlie is no stranger to events like Friday’s Design Auction Preview Party at... READ MORE»
Novac Noury, inventor of the spurting keyboard, wants his property next to AndrééBalazs’ Standard hotel to be a High Line escape route.... READ MORE»
