NYT Most-emailed: The High Line’s “small town in the air”

Today, a new accolade! For the first time, an article about the High Line made it to the “most-emailed” list on the New York Times web site. The article, called “The High Line: A Railway Out of Manhattan”, captures the special atmosphere up on the line– “almost a small town in the air… It even [...]

Walking the High Line with Joel Sternfeld

Next weekend offers a rare opportunity to see Joel Sternfeld’s Photographs of the High Line as part of Luhring Augustine‘s booth at the ADAA Art Show 2009 at the Park Avenue Armory. Back in 2000, in the dawning hours of Friends of the High Line, co-founders Robert Hammond and Joshua David asked noted photographer Joel Sternfeld [...]

Bloomberg: High Line is “the world’s most innovative park”

[Mayor Bloomberg, speaking at our Groundbreaking ceremony in 2006.] In his annual State of the City Address, Mayor Bloomberg focused mainly on his strategy for stabilizing the city’s economy and pulling it out of recession.  The plan he outlined in today’s address at Brooklyn College focused on three main areas: job growth, quality of life, [...]

Rail Yards, High Line, West Side Highway from Above

[Photo (c) Alex S. MacLean/Landslides Aerial Photography. Click image to enlarge]

Historical Photo: High Line Construction Cranes

[Courtesy Mary Habstritt. Click image to enlarge] This 1930′s shot was taken looking West along 30th Street from around 11th Avenue, as the High Line was being built. Construction equipment can be seen mounted onto temporary rails. Cranes were built to pass over the trains in the rail yards.  The photo was part of a construction [...]

Ada Louise Huxtable Attacks Rail Yards Planning Process

Wall Street Journal Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable takes the Rail Yards planning process to task today. She’s skeptical of a process she sees as offering too much to the developers to the utimate detriment of the public good, because it is hard to believe that teams with this much financial heft and assembled star power could [...]

Update on Community Forum Breakout Sessions

  As promised, here’s a quick discussion of the break-out sessions moderated (in some cases) by members of Friends of the High Liine at the community forum presented by Community Board 4 on Monday. The graph above represents some of the main concerns expressed by the various groups (there were 13 groups in all, so [...]

1930′s Rail Yards

(click photo to enlarge) A view looking Southwest at the working rail yards, taken shortly after the High Line was built (date and photographer unknown). Note the boxcars; the rail yards were originally used for freight, but are now used for Long Island Rail Road trains. The Miller Elevated Highway can also be seen, to [...]

Plans Aired to the Community at the Hudson Guild

On Monday night, over 200 interested members of the community (as well as political figures such as New York State Senator Tom Duane) gathered at the Hudson Guild at an event sponsored by Community Board 4 and the Hudson Yards Community Advocacy Coalition that included presentations from the five developers who have submitted plans for [...]

Media Round Up, December 3-10

The Real Deal weighs different developers’ treatment of the grid, the High Line and the challenges of the site. The Observer interviews Extell’s Gary Barnett and Brookfield’s Ric Clark, and lays out developer ties to the Bloomberg administration. Chelsea Now covers last week’s architect presentations at Cooper Union. Atlantic Yards Report shows the contrast between this rail [...]