High Line Blog

[Rendering of Spencer Finch's installation on the HIgh Line inside the Chelsea Market Space.]
Artist Spencer Finch will discuss plans for the public art work he’s mounting on the High Line at a FREE public lecture next week.  The piece, called “The River the Flows Both Ways,” will be installed where the High Line goes through Chelsea [...]

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This afternoon, sixty 8th-grade art students from the Lab School for Collaborative Studies donned tall, blocky shoes made of green chalk and scuffed West along the streets of Chelsea and the Meatpacking District, drawing chalk lines with their feet that ended at three future access points to the High Line.

The choreographed performance was Chalk Shoes [...]

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Friends of the High Line is set to kick off our spring programming season, and we’ll be starting off with a bang.  We’ve commissioned Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist Julia Mandle to work with a group of 60 students from the Lab School in Chelsea to mount a performance and exhibition this April and May. 
The kids, all 8th-grade art [...]

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[Restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and New York City's Irish Hunger Memorial by Robert Silman Associates]
 
[Danish National Opera House and Saudi Arabia's Al Faisaliah Tower by Buro Happold]
Join Friends of the High Line and the Master’s Program in Exhibition Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology for a free design talk with High Line [...]

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Working with our volunteers is one of my favorite parts of my job.  Friends of the High Line has about 115 active volunteers, all of them dynamic individuals who care about the future of New York City.

Last month, we held a volunteer orientation for current and prospective volunteers at the General Theological Seminary in Chelsea.  [...]

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High Line followers gathered on Friday, January 25 at Hector’s Cafe for lunch with the staff of Friends of the High Line. Located directly under the High Line on Washington Street, Hector’s has been a Meatpacking District fixture since 1962 and caters primarily to the meatpackers and truck drivers that make up the early- [...]

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