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Trains stopped running on the High Line in 1980, but it turns out the party was far from over. We direct you to the amazing Art of Noise video for the 1984 single “Close (To the Edit).” Marvel as a mulleted demon child and team of highwater-wearing accomplices deconstruct and set fire to a grand piano and other instruments. [...]
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The High Line is well on its way to becoming New York’s first park in the sky, with plants taking root in late summer and the first section on schedule to open by the end of 2008. Keep up to date with the High Line’s progress here on the Blog, written by Friends of the [...]
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A good concise history of the High Line, from the days of Death Avenue to Friends of the High Line’s preservation efforts. Ethan Hawke narrated this video for us, and Matt Wolf produced it.
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Our friend Matt Wolf, a talented filmmaker who’s produced several short videos about the High Line, makes the New York debut of his first feature-length film, “Wild Combination“, at the Kitchen on May 15. Matt’s film was an Official Selection at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. The film will show as part of a series [...]
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Crain’s came out with their annual 40 Under 40 list yesterday, and the High Line’s own Robert Hammond made the cut. He’s profiled on the site with a quick video (and enough studio photos to turn heads over at the Daily Intelligencer.) Robert Hammond, 38 [Crain's 40 Under 40]
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In one of the greatest movie openings of all time, Woody Allen’s Manhattan features shots of his noble but down-at-the-heels city unfolding to the swooping score of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and Allen’s own signature writerly futzing. The whole thing is worth watching, of course, but pay special attention to seconds 22 through 26. The shadowy [...]
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In what is an eerily near-perfect re-telling of my own coming-to-New York story, Pat Benatar’s Love Is A Battlefield video tells the story of a runaway from small-town America, who, against all odds, fights her way through the grime-ridden dive bars of New York’s oily, leather-clad underbelly, to end up dancing in the streets (where [...]
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The NBC real estate show Open House NYC covered the High Line’s transformation in a segment on its Sunday morning broadcast. It features co-Founder Robert Hammond and City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden. (A 15-second ad plays before the video.)
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