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[Staying cool at the Sundeck water feature near 16th Street this afternoon] Today’s blog post was guest written by one of our new Greeters, Claudia Berger. Today’s ribbon-cutting ceremony with Mayor Bloomberg marked the unofficial opening day on the High Line. (The official opening day is tomorrow, Tuesday June 9th, when the park will be [...]
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Timothy Schenck, on our engineering team, has taken some beautiful site photos throughout the construction process. More after the jump.
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Section 1 is very busy right now as the team prepares for a delivery of soil in a few weeks. I went up this morning to take stock of all the action happening on the Line right now. Here are some highlights. Click all photos to enlarge. Tracks are being re-installed in their original locations, [...]
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Concrete planks were delivered recently on a flatbed truck, and loaded onto the High Line at 14th Street with a crane. Workers began installing the planks at Gansevoort Street, and are working their way north. These 12-foot-long, tapered planks will become the pathways on the High Line. The tapered ends of the planks will allow [...]
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Another milestone in Landscape Construction this week: Starting at the High Line’s Southern end at Gansevoort Street, contractors have begun to install the park’s planking system. These twelve-foot long smooth concrete planks will taper at the end, allowing plants to push up between them (and evoking the way the plants grew up around the rails [...]
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