High Line Blog

[Members of the construction, design, and client teams meet to review the lounge chair mock-up.]
One of the most exciting furniture pieces on the High Line will be movable chaise lounge chairs located at the Sundeck between West 14th and 15th Streets. These lounge chairs will sit on the original rail tracks, mounted on new wooden [...]

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This one was taken before construction began, in the fall of 2005. In the foreground, the High Line runs above the (soon to be gone) Chelsea Car Wash, before ducking through the former Cudahy Meatpacking plant.
Last week’s Photo of the Week
 

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This 4-inch praying mantis was spotted on the Rail Yards section, above 30th Street.

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[Cowboy on 10th Avenue and 17th Street. Click to enlarge.]
This is one of our favorite historical images. The West Side Cowboys were employed by the City to ride in front of street-level freight trains and wave pedestrians out of the way. This was the City’s stopgap measure to stop the carnage on what was known as [...]

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In honor of the dismal weather forecast for this week, here’s my favorite rain shot of the High Line. This is an old meatpacking platform on 13th Street turned impromptu surrealist still-life.
Previous Photo of the Week

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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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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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