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Another Glass House, Err, Office, for the High Line

The High Line is turning into the new Park Avenue. On the northern end are luxe apartment buildings, some of the finest in the city, and to the south, cutting edge office towers. While it is not quite Seagrams or Lever House, 837 Washington and the High Line Building are nothing to sneeze at. Now Read More

EXCLUSIVE: Former Jay-Z Development Site Approaches $60 Million Acquisition

The Albanese Organization is closing in on a development site next to the High Line that rapper Jay-Z had owned and lost during the downturn. The company, a real estate development and acquisition firm, could shell out nearly $60 million for the site according to sources familiar with the parcel, which sits next to the Read More

Some Brooklynite Complains About Extension of High Line, Which Will Happen Regardless

The High Line is one of New York's millennial architectural treasures: a testament not only to a city's rejuvenation after 9/11 and a working relationship between public and private space (and money), but an eco-friendly green space in one of the world's most industrial hubbubs.

So with the park's planned extension with Section Three, which goes northward past West 33rd St., you'd think that everybody would be happy...at least until we can get the subterranean Low Line up and running. But they're not.
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High Line Wrecks 90-Year-Old Auto Body Shop

The High Line has been held up as a dynamo of economic development, generating billions of dollars in new condos, boutiques and restaurant, even attracting a museum or two to a lot where cattle carcasses once hung. It's such a big deal, there's no room for the little guys. Read More

Twisted! High Line Gets Another Swank Neighbor

The architecture magnet that is the High Line is still attracting those big steel-and-glass gems. The Standard, the Whitney, Diane Von Furstenburg's place, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Neil Denari and his crooked HL23—all are there, and so is Morris Adjmi. He already has the XXX-rated High Line Building, and he has been hard at work wooing the Landmarks Preservation Commission with his designs for 837 Washington Street. Yesterday, the commission approved the project 8-2. Read More

Little High Line Envy in East Chelsea

Who needs the High Line when you have a bright pink piano covered in glitter?

We caught up with one woman who was playing the pop-up instrument in Herald Square as part of a first-day-of-summer celebration. We asked her how East Chelsea was doing now that its western neighbor had that snazzy, somewhat snooty High Line.

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The Whitney Plans May Groundbreaking, Shows Its Dark Side [Video]

After project. The latter had some additional details about the design and, more importantly, some blurring pics and video of a fly-through of the museum.

The biggest news is the striking, as yet unseen western facade, with its huge, Hudson-facing windows. Perhaps Piano meant them as an homage to Marcel Breur's unusual openings at the current Read More

City Getting Control of Last Bit of High Line

The last pieces of the High Line are nearly under city control.

A City Council subcommittee today voted to allow the city to acquire the portion of the High Line—the former rail viaduct planned as parkland—north of 30th Street. This is the third of three segments of the High Line, which spans from the Meatpacking District north through Read More

High Line, Part II Debuts Next Spring

Maybe this will help alleviate the crowding.

The second phase of the High Line, the sublime new public space build atop an old rail line, is scheduled to debut next spring, according to the New York Post:

During a tour of the new section, stretching from 20th to 30th streets, enough of the construction has been Read More

High Line Fashion, Priced to Move

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 20th.

Rodarte's elaborately ugly-chic textiles seem like a weird fit for the mass-market retailer--like neither the craft nor the aesthetic particularly lend Read More

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

The High Line Gets The Whitney

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 Read More

Your Open House: Nobody Needs the High Line, But…

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 Line.

The condo, at 555 West 23rd Street, falls Read More

High Life for the High Line; Ed Norton Fetes Park at Sweaty Gala

“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.

As guests overflowed, Friends of Read More

West Side Rail Yards Forum: High Line To Be Incorporated; 4.4 M. Feet of Residential; Fewer Retail Shops

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 reviews.

Some quick background: Related, which the M.T.A. selected to develop the site (but hasn't yet Read More