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High Line
(four access points)
New York, NY 10011
Tel: (212) 500-6035
Fax: (212) 206-9118
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The High Line is a public park built on an historic railroad viaduct elevated above the streets on the west side of Manhattan.
Originally built in the 1930s to remove dangerous freight trains off Manhattan's streets, the High Line delivered raw and manufactured good into upper-floor loading docks of factories and warehouses. The last train ran on the High Line in 1980, carrying a trainload of frozen turkeys.
Friends of the High Line, an advocacy group founded by two neighborhood residents, Joshua David and Robert Hammond, worked with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the New York City Council to preserve and transform the High Line into a public park.
The first section of the park (Gansevoort Street to West 20th Street) opened to the public in the summer of 2009. It features an integrated landscape, designed by landscape architects James Corner Field Operations, with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, combining meandering concrete pathways with naturalistic plantings.
The second section of the park (West 20th Street to West 30th Street) is scheduled to open in June, 2011, with access points at West 23rd, 28th, and 30th Streets.
Friends of the High Line is now the nonprofit conservancy working under a licensing agreement with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to make sure the High Line is maintained as a great public place for all New Yorkers and visitors to enjoy. In addition to overseeing the maintenance, operations and public programming for the High Line, Friends of the High Line works to raise the essential private funding to complete the High Line's construction, support more than 70 percent of park operations, and create an endowment for its future operations.
- Directions: L, A, C or E to 14th Street and Eighth Avenue
C or E to 23rd Street and Eighth Avenue
1, 2 or 3 to 14th Street and Seventh Avenue
Southernmost entry at Gansevoort and Washington Streets; northernmost at West 20th Street and Tenth Avenue.
- ADA Compliant Restrooms: At 16th Street.
- Disability Access: Entire park is wheelchair accessible. Elevator access at 14th and 16th streets. Section 2 (opening Spring 2011) has elevator access at 23rd and 30th Streets.
- On-Site Food
- Tours: Regularly scheduled tours in the summer, fall and spring on Sundays at 2 pm. Due to the narrow width of pathways on the High Line, tour groups cannot be larger than 25. Tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Get involved with High Line
- Donations through High Line's Web site
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Memberships
- Subscriptions: Subscribe to the High Line's email newsletter.
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High Line Listings
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Sarah Sze: Still Life with Landscape
Wed, June 8, 2011 – Fri, June 8, 2012 Sarah Sze created an elaborate metropolis of perspectival architectural models that is bisected by the High Line itself. The sculpture forms an open archway that frames the views to the north and south, as well as allows visitors to physically enter and pass through the space it outlines.
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Spencer Finch, The River That Flows Both Ways
Ongoing The artist transforms a semi-enclosed loading dock's existing casement windows with 700 individually crafted panes of glass representing the water conditions on the Hudson River over a single day.
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Valerie Hegarty, Autumn on the Hudson Valley with Branches
Ongoing This artwork poses as an artifact of art history gone awry, resembling a Hudson River School landscape painting that has been left outdoors, exposed to the elements.