View of the Hudson River from the High Line in NYC. Photo by Iwan Baan.
I visited this new park about 10 days ago and was very impressed! The High Line was originally constructed in the 1930s to lift dangerous freight trains off Manhattan’s streets. In 1999, it was under threat of demolition, so a community-based non-profit group called Friends of the High Line formed and worked with the City of New York to preserve it and convert it into a public park.
The High Line design team was led by landscape architecture and urban design firm James Corner Field Operations with architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
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