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Excerpt from review about the High Line on StructureHub.com:

After ten years of advocacy, fundraising, and cheer-leading, the vision of Josh David and Robert Hammond, co-founders of Friends of the High Line, has been realized (that is, Phase I from Gansevoort to West 20th Street) in the form of a new sliver-like park floating above New York City’s concrete corridors and nestled in rusted steel. Derelict for decades, the elevated railway that once delivered freight to scores of warehouses had little going for it when a push for demolition gained speed. Luckily David and Hammond met and came upon their idea of new parkland that would add needed green space, but also preserve the somewhat gritty - or lived-in - feel of the Westside neighborhood the High Line once trundled through. Tearing it down would have eliminated a rusting hulk of shade, but doing so would also have created an (literally) unobstructed path to generic redevelopment projects having little feel for the community’s history and identity.

structurehub.com/blog/2009/06/structurehub-review-high-on...

 

The High Line was built in the 1930s, as part of a massive public-private infrastructure project called the West Side Improvement. It lifted freight traffic 30 feet in the air, removing dangerous trains from the streets of Manhattan's largest industrial district. No trains have run on the High Line since 1980. Friends of the High Line, a community-based non-profit group, formed in 1999 when the historic structure was under threat of demolition. Friends of the High Line works in partnership with the City of New York to preserve and maintain the structure as an elevated public park.

 

The project gained the City's support in 2002. The High Line south of 30th Street was donated to the City by CSX Transportation Inc. in 2005. The design team of landscape architects James Corner Field Operations, with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, created the High Line's public landscape with guidance from a diverse community of High Line supporters. Construction on the park began in 2006. The first section, from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street, is projected to open in June 2009.

 

DESIGN TEAM:

James Corner Field Operations will oversee phase 2 of development (from 20th to 30th streets) which is scheduled to be completed Spring 2011:

www.fieldoperations.net/

 

Interview with James Corner:

inhabitat.com/2010/08/23/interview-architect-james-corner...

 

Piet Oudolf: Planting Designer

www.oudolf.com/piet-oudolf

 

Diller Scofidio + Renfro

www.dsrny.com/

 

Robert Silman Associates: Structural Engineering/Historic Preservation

www.rsapc.com/

 

Buro Happold: Structural / MEP Engineering

www.burohappold.com/bh/home.aspx

  

More about High Line Park:

 

www.thehighline.org/about/high-line-history

 

www.thehighline.org/galleries/images

 

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Brian Mennes, commander of Fort Drum and 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, NY, and leaders from 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Polk, Louisiana, participate in a commanders update brief at the brigade tactical operations center during the brigade Joint Readiness Training Center rotation 21-06, April 10, 2021, at Peason Ridge on Fort Polk, Louisiana. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Ashley M. Morris)

A couple days after Section 2 of the High Line opened. Now the park extends from the Meatpacking District (south of 14th Street) to 30th Street, near the Hudson Yards.

 

Neil Denari's HL23 and Lindy Roy's High Line 519 from the 23rd Street Lawn.

Marines with 1st Marine Logistics Group practice drinking water from a canteen while wearing their gas mask aboard Camp Pendleton, Calif., Friday, March 15, 2013. Marines completed the gas chamber exercise in order to increase their confidence operating in a contaminated environment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kenneth Jasik/Released)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Field Operations. Anacortes, Washington. Check out the homepage for the AJM STUDIOS Northwest Police Department! Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association. Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association Homepage. 2012.

 

Railway artifact, cleaned up but intact.

 

From a preview walk of the third phase of the High Line (around the Hudson Yards, between 30th and 34th Streets), just before its completion in September 2014. A comparison to my previous visit, in October 2012, reveals the scope of the transformations by James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, et al. As well, one can see the interesting and occasionally quite successful steps taken along this stretch to exploit the greater width of the right-of-way, incorporating more of the original tracks and pseudo-original plantings and artifacts as a parallel course of look-but-don't-touch landscape. Along the way we also get some views of miscellaneous construction around the Hudson Yards. My quick-and-dirty remarks on the High Line project in general can be found here.

  

Thanks to the Friends of the High Line for the opportunity to take this tour.

From a preview walk of the third phase of the High Line (around the Hudson Yards, between 30th and 34th Streets), just before its completion in September 2014. A comparison to my previous visit, in October 2012, reveals the scope of the transformations by James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, et al. As well, one can see the interesting and occasionally quite successful steps taken along this stretch to exploit the greater width of the right-of-way, incorporating more of the original tracks and pseudo-original plantings and artifacts as a parallel course of look-but-don't-touch landscape. Along the way we also get some views of miscellaneous construction around the Hudson Yards. My quick-and-dirty remarks on the High Line project in general can be found here.

Up ahead: the Javits Center.

 

Thanks to the Friends of the High Line for the opportunity to take this tour.

One of many law enforcement vehicles that participated in the parade.

A couple days after Section 2 of the High Line opened. Now the park extends from the Meatpacking District (south of 14th Street) to 30th Street, near the Hudson Yards.

 

Descending from the Woodland Flyover to the Wildflower Field north of 26th Street.

A couple days after Section 2 of the High Line opened. Now the park extends from the Meatpacking District (south of 14th Street) to 30th Street, near the Hudson Yards.

 

Looking south from atop the 22nd Street Seating Steps.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Anacortes, Washington. Check out the homepage for the AJM STUDIOS Northwest Police Department! Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association. Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association Homepage. 2012.

 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Field Operations. Anacortes, Washington. Check out the homepage for the AJM STUDIOS Northwest Police Department! Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association. Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association Homepage. 2012.

 

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents were called in to check out the fire at the North American International Auto Show.

A view from the 'end' of the High Line to the Standard.

 

051613: Washington DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying. Photo by James Tourtellotte

U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Everett, Washington. Check out the homepage for the AJM STUDIOS Northwest Police Department! Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association. Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association Homepage. 2013 Photo. 2014.

United States Customs & Border Protection

Ford Explorer

Vehicle #L82095

Field Operations

 

Picture Date: 11/08/2010

 

This United States Customs & Border Protection Ford Explorer was spotted in Long Beach, California.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Everett, Washington. Check out the homepage for the AJM STUDIOS Northwest Police Department! Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association. Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association Homepage. 2013 Photo. 2014.

Taken at the Amigo Airsho at Biggs Air Field on Fort Bliss, El Paso Texas.

US Customs and Border Protection Field Operations perform daily operational duties at the National Targeting Center (NTC) keeping terrorism at bay by filtering through advance information on people and products looking for potential terrorists or terrorist weapons.

Photo by: James Tourtellotte

The 3rd phase of the High Line opened to the public on September 21, 2014.

Taken at the Amigo Airsho at Biggs Air Field on Fort Bliss, El Paso Texas.

A couple days after Section 2 of the High Line opened. Now the park extends from the Meatpacking District (south of 14th Street) to 30th Street, near the Hudson Yards.

 

Looking up at Neil Denari's HL23.

From a preview walk of the third phase of the High Line (around the Hudson Yards, between 30th and 34th Streets), just before its completion in September 2014. A comparison to my previous visit, in October 2012, reveals the scope of the transformations by James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, et al. As well, one can see the interesting and occasionally quite successful steps taken along this stretch to exploit the greater width of the right-of-way, incorporating more of the original tracks and pseudo-original plantings and artifacts as a parallel course of look-but-don't-touch landscape. Along the way we also get some views of miscellaneous construction around the Hudson Yards. My quick-and-dirty remarks on the High Line project in general can be found here.

  

Thanks to the Friends of the High Line for the opportunity to take this tour.

051613: Washington DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying. Photo by James Tourtellotte

051613: Washington DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying. Photo by James Tourtellotte

CBP Field Operations Officer conducts Vehicle Inspection in the secondary area at the port of San Luis, Photographer: Josh Denmark

051613: Washington DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying. Photo by James Tourtellotte

051613: Washington DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying. Photo by James Tourtellotte

051613: Washington DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying. Photo by James Tourtellotte

San Ysidro: CBP San Diego Operations - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer conducts vehicle check inspections at the San Ysidro border port of entry.

Photographer: Donna Burton

A couple days after Section 2 of the High Line opened. Now the park extends from the Meatpacking District (south of 14th Street) to 30th Street, near the Hudson Yards.

 

The 22nd Street Seating Steps, with HL23 by Neil Denari in the distance.

051613: Washington DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying. Photo by James Tourtellotte

051613: Washington DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying. Photo by James Tourtellotte

Excerpt from review about the High Line on StructureHub.com:

After ten years of advocacy, fundraising, and cheer-leading, the vision of Josh David and Robert Hammond, co-founders of Friends of the High Line, has been realized (that is, Phase I from Gansevoort to West 20th Street) in the form of a new sliver-like park floating above New York City’s concrete corridors and nestled in rusted steel. Derelict for decades, the elevated railway that once delivered freight to scores of warehouses had little going for it when a push for demolition gained speed. Luckily David and Hammond met and came upon their idea of new parkland that would add needed green space, but also preserve the somewhat gritty - or lived-in - feel of the Westside neighborhood the High Line once trundled through. Tearing it down would have eliminated a rusting hulk of shade, but doing so would also have created an (literally) unobstructed path to generic redevelopment projects having little feel for the community’s history and identity.

structurehub.com/blog/2009/06/structurehub-review-high-on...

 

The High Line was built in the 1930s, as part of a massive public-private infrastructure project called the West Side Improvement. It lifted freight traffic 30 feet in the air, removing dangerous trains from the streets of Manhattan's largest industrial district. No trains have run on the High Line since 1980. Friends of the High Line, a community-based non-profit group, formed in 1999 when the historic structure was under threat of demolition. Friends of the High Line works in partnership with the City of New York to preserve and maintain the structure as an elevated public park.

 

The project gained the City's support in 2002. The High Line south of 30th Street was donated to the City by CSX Transportation Inc. in 2005. The design team of landscape architects James Corner Field Operations, with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, created the High Line's public landscape with guidance from a diverse community of High Line supporters. Construction on the park began in 2006. The first section, from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street, is projected to open in June 2009.

 

James Corner Field Operations will oversee phase 2 of development (from 20th to 30th streets) which is scheduled to be completed Spring 2011:

www.fieldoperations.net/

 

More about High Line Park:

 

www.thehighline.org/about/high-line-history

 

www.thehighline.org/galleries/images

  

A couple days after Section 2 of the High Line opened. Now the park extends from the Meatpacking District (south of 14th Street) to 30th Street, near the Hudson Yards.

 

The 22nd Street Seating Steps / 23rd Street Lawn, with HL23 by Neil Denari in the distance.

051613: Washington DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying. Photo by James Tourtellotte

051613: Washington DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying. Photo by James Tourtellotte

051613: Washington DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying. Photo by James Tourtellotte

051613: Washington DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying. Photo by James Tourtellotte

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