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This Summer: New Sound Art by Stephen Vitiello

Details for a  major new art installation, going in on the High Line this summer, have been finalized. Building on the success of  Spencer Finch’s installation in the Chelsea Market Passage, we’re once again partnering with public art superstars Creative Time and the public art wing of the Parks Department. This time, we commissioned a [...]

“Night Falls on the High Line” Video

This video is helping us ease into our week. Daniel Turkewitz has woven together a series of shots on the High Line–clouds passing over the Hudson, delicate grasses fluttering in the breeze, sky changing from gold to inky blue, and ethereal images of people as they travel through the park.  It’s a  beautiful, dreamy video. [...]

High Line-inspired Art: Sur la ligne/On the line

571 Projects in Chelsea is now showing a High Line-inspired work by artist Jan Gilbert. The New Orleans native makes her debut in New York with a piece entitled Sur la ligne/On the line. In the gallery’s press release, Gilbert states that the High Line “serves as a superb viewing pedestal of this vibrant, quirky, [...]

Snowy Night

All the snow we’ve had lately has made us see the High Line’s landscape in a new way. Drifting snow changes the shape of the planting beds and pathways. The monochromatic palate of the landscape makes the skeletal forms of grasses, trees and other landscape elements really pop. Railroad tracks retain heat and melt through [...]

Preparing for Spring Growth

Now that spring is approaching, our gardeners are beginning the cutback process, which will provide space for new growth during the warmer months.  In a traditional garden, plants are cut back when their stalks begin to dry during autumn.   In keeping with planting designer Piet Oudolf’s belief that a plant’s dried seed heads are just [...]

Weekend Snow on the High Line

While this week’s snowstorm turns brown, slushy, and inconvenient on street level, it’s still clean and beautiful up on the High Line.  There’s quite a bit of snow left–come up and enjoy it this weekend!  (Perhaps even make it part of a romantic date on Sunday?) Weather permitting, we’ll be open for regular winter hours, [...]

The High Line Digs Out

Come see the High Line in its stylish white coat! After the snow stopped falling early this morning, our Maintenance and Operations team spent several hours using snow blowers, shovels and an eco-friendly de-icer to clear the High Line’s paths and stairways. The park is now open south of 16th Street, and we expect a [...]

30th Street Access Point: Cutting Complete!

We love this shot by Tim Schenck of Silman Associates, the High Line’s structural engineering firm. It shows the progress, and the context, of the new access point at 30th Street, what will be the northernmost point of Section 2. Earlier: Section 2 Construction: 30th Street Entrance

February Blooms

February is unexpectedly interesting for blooms on the High Line.  This month features three plants: witch hazel (Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Pallida’), Dawn bodnant viburnum (Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’), and sweet box (Sarcococca hookeriana). The rose-colored buds in the picture above are the beginnings of blooms on a Dawn bodnant viburnum, a shrub that flowers during [...]