High Line Blog

A new piece of High Line Merchandise, this fantastic canvas and leather High Line logo tote by Charles Nolan, located in the neighborhood at 30 Gansevoort Street.

We are thrilled with the products that have been designed for our High Line Merchandise Program.  Big shout-outs to all the neighborhood designers that have been working hard on these pieces.

Tote bag by Charles Nolan, $95

A portion of the proceeds from each sale will support the High Line’s maintenance and operations.

Click here for more info and a complete list of participating designers[PDF].

Visitors at the Chelsea Grasslands

Today’s blog post was guest written by one of our Greeters, Claudia Berger.

One thing is for sure, rain certainly helps the garden grow. The last few weeks of rain has really allowed the Chelsea Grasslands section to flourish. Flowers and other plants of all colors, shapes and sizes have been blooming attracting not only visitors but a variety of butterflies, bees, and birds.

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If you visited the park in our first couple of weeks, you may have been told to enter using the Gansevoort access point. This early limited access was part of our strategy to handle the anticipated heavy crowds on the park initially.

You can now enter and exit the park at all access points (Gansevoort stairs, 14^th Street stairs, 16^th street stairs and elevator, 18^th street stairs, and 20^th street stairs).

However, in the event that we reach capacity, we will once again limit entrance to the Gansevoort access point (or 16^th Street if you require an elevator). This is most likely to happen on the weekends, during peak hours of 1:00 to 4:00. So far, this has only occurred on two occasions on the weekends, and has resulted in lines of 10 to 30 minutes.

Most visitors who encountered the lines still had a wonderful experience in the park, and recognized that the brief wait was necessary in order to ensure the safety and enjoyment of all visitors and to prevent damage to the park’s delicate landscape.

We hope that you will take the opportunity to visit the High Line, as more than 100,000 visitors have already!

We’ve created a brand-new Flickr Group, and it’s looking a little lonely. We need YOU to cheer up our Pool by adding photos of your High Line visit!

If you have a Flickr account, go to www.flickr.com/groups/friendsofthehighline/ and click “Join this Group” at the top. Once you’re a member, it’s easy to add photos. Just click on “Group Pool” and “Add Photos or Video”.

If you don’t have a Flickr account, it’s easy and free to set one up.

See you in the Pool!

Some of you may have noticed an increase in precipitation over the past month or so. Meteorologists have put it down to the high-altitude jet stream that normally guides the movement of weather across the country being slightly south of its normal position- an explanation that may suffice for those of us willing to settle for a simple, evidently logical answer, but for those looking for a more challenging account of what’s going on, the folks over at trainjotting have uncovered a much more sinister explanation.

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