High Line Blog

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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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On Monday night, over 200 interested members of the community (as well as political figures such as New York State Senator Tom Duane) gathered at the Hudson Guild at an event sponsored by Community Board 4 and the Hudson Yards Community Advocacy Coalition that included presentations from the five developers who have submitted plans for [...]

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The Real Deal weighs different developers’ treatment of the grid, the High Line and the challenges of the site.
The Observer interviews Extell’s Gary Barnett and Brookfield’s Ric Clark, and lays out developer ties to the Bloomberg administration.
Chelsea Now covers last week’s architect presentations at Cooper Union.
Atlantic Yards Report shows the contrast between this rail yards process and [...]

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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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Friends of the High Line is developing a series of principles for the treatment of the High Line at the rail yards. We strongly urge the MTA to make the following principles a requirement for the selected rail yards developer.  The developers’ proposals demonstrate that all of these principles are feasible.  We look forward to [...]

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