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Next weekend offers a rare opportunity to see Joel Sternfeld’s Photographs of the High Line as part of Luhring Augustine’s booth at the ADAA Art Show 2009 at the Park Avenue Armory.
Back in 2000, in the dawning hours of Friends of the High Line, co-founders Robert Hammond and Joshua David asked noted photographer Joel Sternfeld to [...]
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[Mayor Bloomberg, speaking at our Groundbreaking ceremony in 2006.]
In his annual State of the City Address, Mayor Bloomberg focused mainly on his strategy for stabilizing the city’s economy and pulling it out of recession. The plan he outlined in today’s address at Brooklyn College focused on three main areas: job growth, quality of life, and [...]
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[Photo (c) Alex S. MacLean/Landslides Aerial Photography. Click image to enlarge]
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[Courtesy Mary Habstritt. Click image to enlarge]
This 1930’s shot was taken looking West along 30th Street from around 11th Avenue, as the High Line was being built. Construction equipment can be seen mounted onto temporary rails. Cranes were built to pass over the trains in the rail yards.
The photo was part of a construction survey done [...]
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Wall Street Journal Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable takes the Rail Yards planning process to task today. She’s skeptical of a process she sees as offering too much to the developers to the utimate detriment of the public good, because
it is hard to believe that teams with this much financial heft and assembled star power could come [...]
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As promised, here’s a quick discussion of the break-out sessions moderated (in some cases) by members of Friends of the High Liine at the community forum presented by Community Board 4 on Monday. The graph above represents some of the main concerns expressed by the various groups (there were 13 groups in all, so you [...]
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A view looking Southwest at the working rail yards, taken shortly after the High Line was built (date and photographer unknown). Note the boxcars; the rail yards were originally used for freight, but are now used for Long Island Rail Road trains. The Miller Elevated Highway can also be seen, to the [...]
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This week’s issue of Chelsea Now features an editorial making the case for preserving the entire High Line at the rail yards. The Villager also ran the editorial.
The piece focuses on the High Line’s ability to add value to the site by increasing the value of the surrounding real estate, drawing tourists to the area, serving as [...]
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