New York City High Line Park
Enjoying being retired has given me the discretionary idleness of going downtown and meeting an old friend to have lunch and discuss how our lives have gone by which use to be one of things I use to do a lot more often before marriage and children degenerated my social life to being with other parents with screaming brats at playground dates and the like. But I digress from the subject of this image which was the New York City High Line Park. The history goes back to 19th century when ground level rail lines were laid out. However in the early 20th century the current elevated rail structure was built to accommodate the flow of car and truck traffic. However by 1980 was the last time the structure was used for rail traffic and the southern end of the structure was demolished a few years later. The remaining structure was left abandoned and overgrown with weeds and became a spot used BY early URBEX enthusiasts and drug users. For the next several years in the nineties the fate of the structure was debated by civic groups, community boards and politicians. In the early twenty first century the area saw an explosion of gentrification and modern luxury housing development which generated enthusiasm to convert the old rail line into a park which opened in 2009.
New York City High Line Park
Enjoying being retired has given me the discretionary idleness of going downtown and meeting an old friend to have lunch and discuss how our lives have gone by which use to be one of things I use to do a lot more often before marriage and children degenerated my social life to being with other parents with screaming brats at playground dates and the like. But I digress from the subject of this image which was the New York City High Line Park. The history goes back to 19th century when ground level rail lines were laid out. However in the early 20th century the current elevated rail structure was built to accommodate the flow of car and truck traffic. However by 1980 was the last time the structure was used for rail traffic and the southern end of the structure was demolished a few years later. The remaining structure was left abandoned and overgrown with weeds and became a spot used BY early URBEX enthusiasts and drug users. For the next several years in the nineties the fate of the structure was debated by civic groups, community boards and politicians. In the early twenty first century the area saw an explosion of gentrification and modern luxury housing development which generated enthusiasm to convert the old rail line into a park which opened in 2009.