New York City’s High Line: urban garden and sculptures in pictures
Elevated above the streets of Manhattan’s West Side, founded in 1999, the High Line has become the pride and joy of NYC. It is an urban delight raised above the city streets.
Originally built in the 1930s as part of the West Side Improvement project as a means to mitigate the number of accidents that were occurring between freight trains and street traffic – 10th Avenue had become known as Death Avenue. The High Line solved the problem by lifting the freight traffic 30 feet above the busy streets, removing 105 street level railroad crossings, connecting directly to factories and warehouses and reducing street level traffic. The trains ran for years, but use fell into decline with the growth of interstate trucking. Finally, in 1980, the final train took to the High Line and it was the end of an era.
The people of New York rallied to save the High Line with the Friends of the High Line forming in 1999, fighting to preserve and reopen as public open space. June 9, 2009 sees the first section of the High Line open to the public….and the rest is history!
Urban Garden:
Colourful Street art:
Art Installations along the High Line:
For more information about the High Line – visit their website.
For something a little more exciting than the parking billboard I saw as I walked along the High Line, check out Billboard Chronicles – Bringing sexy back to Chelsea
Thanks to Travel with Kat for the introduction into FriFotos with here collection from Cabo Verde (400 miles west of Senegal)!
Loving your post – great captures – love when a city recycles and makes an area liveable again:) Happy Friday!
Posted by cravesadventure | January 25, 2013, 12:10 pmIt is pretty cool, isn’t it! Happy Friday!
Posted by Anita Mac | January 25, 2013, 6:04 pmGreat Post!
Posted by OwlMcCloud | January 25, 2013, 12:16 pmThanks. It is easy when the location is so nice.
Posted by Anita Mac | January 25, 2013, 6:05 pmI would recommend a visit to High Line Park! it is a great place to spend a couple of hours when visiting NYC.
Posted by jmeyersforeman | January 25, 2013, 10:59 pmI missed the park. Will have to go back in the spring! I’d love to see the High Line in bloom.
Posted by Anita Mac | January 26, 2013, 8:50 amI loved it when we went here, and this is a great example of urban regeneration. I tell all my mates planning to go to New York – “You have to do the High Line!”. Thanks for the write up, great photos.
Posted by cyardin | January 26, 2013, 7:59 amThanks! Glad you like my write up. Feel free to pass it on to your friends. I look forward to going back and seeing it in a different season….I imagine it takes on a different personality all the time! It is great that they were able to come together to save the High Line – and it has become so popular too!
Posted by Anita Mac | January 26, 2013, 8:58 amI’ve seen a few post about the ‘High Line’. I must remember to go and see it the next time I’m in NYC. Thanks for your great pics. That parking billboard is very amusing.
Posted by adinparadise | January 26, 2013, 10:48 amGlad you liked it! The billboard made me giggle too!
Posted by Anita Mac | January 26, 2013, 11:21 amLove the billboard
Posted by Bashar A. | January 26, 2013, 11:35 amAs always-great shots… I can frame a nice shot when I see it-but I don’t have your eye for angles
Posted by Emma's Bucket List | January 27, 2013, 4:59 amOr a decent enough camera or lens to produce your focus. Love looking at your pictures
Posted by Emma's Bucket List | January 27, 2013, 5:00 amThanks Emma. You don’t need to have a fancy camera to produce great shots! One of the above photos was taken with my phone and the rest with my every day lens. I did recently pick up a 60 mm macro, but I find I mostly stick to my all-in-one 18-200mm when I travel. It covers all my bases no matter what I am shooting without the need to keep changing my lens! I learnt the hard way that there are times when lens changes are not good (I got dust in the auto-focus of my film SLR when I was in the Everest region, and it is has never been the same since! Don’t want to make the same mistake with my digital SLR!)
Happy travels.
Posted by Anita Mac | January 27, 2013, 9:51 am