High Line Blog

An architect friend of mine, Matt Miller, was in town earlier this week, and we were talking about the High Line over dinner. Matt lives in Culver City, where the bizarrely compelling Museum of Jurrasic Technology anchors the cultural community with oddities and curiousites real and imagined. If you are ever in Los Angeles, you should check it out, as it might be one of the most real things in the City of Angels. Matt and I were eating at La Bonne Soupe — the eerily intact mid-70’s Franco-American proto-bistro, with prices to match — that seemingly lives in amber on 55th St. As we were discussing Rusty B, Matt made the observation that the High Line is “the ultimate found object” and that it seemingly lay hidden in plain sight for decades as the city changed around it. I had never heard anyone express it that way before, and really appreciated the Angelino’s fresh persepctive on the nascent park-in-the-sky and how it survived long enough to come in to being.