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The Old Swift meat-packing complex.
Hard to believe this 22 acre of ruin still stands a block from the active part of the Stockyards in Ft Worth, TX.
After the plant closed in 1971, the place was heaven for graffiti taggers, a plot of urban wilderness routinely explored by teenagers and photographers... however in the next few years, it may change that.
~ source "Swift Changes" - Ft Worth Weekly
~ History of Stockyards and Swift meat-packing complex
How much has the Meatpacking District changed since 2001? Here's how a New York Times story described the neighborhood three months before 9/11: "The sidewalks run with rivulets of greasy blood, and prostitutes pick their way around discarded chunks of fat."
These days the writer would have to replace blood with "hair gel," prostitutes with "bouncers" and chunks of fat with "Eastern European models." The story is a trip down memory lane into a not-so-distant past, though it feels like it was written 100 years ago. Since that time the area has been gentrified.
The last time I saw meat hanging on hooks streetside was in 2008; the images I took that summer appeared to be unique; when I revisited Meatpacking District it was all gone.
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The High Line, NYC
by navema
On view May 7, 2010 — May 2011 on the east side of the High Line, between West 17th and West 18th Streets.
Richard Galpin is best known for creating altered photographs of cityscapes. His chosen method of manipulation is to cut and remove the top layer of the colored emulsion from his photographic prints, exposing the paper substrate. By eradicating part of the photograph, the imagery becomes altered to the point of total abstraction. Using clean lines and sharp angles, Galpin's technique produces works with an emphasis on geometric shapes, recalling early 20th century movements such as Constructivism, Cubism and Futurism.
For the High Line, Galpin has created a 'viewing station' that functions in a manner similar to his cut photographs. Park visitors can look through a viewing apparatus lined up with a metal screen from which geometric shapes have been cut. The combination of these two devices gives visitors an altered, abstracted view from the High Line. One of the wonderful experiences the High Line has provided to visitors is a new vista of Manhattan. Similarly, Galpin's artwork will offer a novel reconsideration of our surroundings.
This High Line Art Commission is presented by Friends of the High Line and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Since graduating from Goldsmiths College with an MA in 2001, Richard Galpin has had solo exhibitions at Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis; Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Rome; Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo; Roebling Hall, New York; and Hales Gallery, London. Group exhibitions include Under Erasure at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; When it's a Photograph at The Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles; Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions at the British Museum, London; The Photograph in Question, Von Lintel Gallery, New York; Attack: Attraction, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco; and Looking With/Out at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. His work is included in several public collections including the British Government Art Collection, the British Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He lives and works in London, and is represented by Hales Gallery, London and Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo.
HISTORY OF THE HIGH LINE:
The High Line is a park built on a section of the former elevated freight railroad spur called the West Side Line, which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan; it has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway.
In 1847, the City of New York authorizes street-level railroad tracks down Manhattan’s West Side. Between 1851 – 1929, so many accidents occur between freight trains and street-level traffic that 10th Avenue becomes known as Death Avenue. For safety, men on horses, called the West Side Cowboys, ride in front of trains waving red flags.
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. The entire project was 13 miles long, eliminated 105 street-level railroad crossings, and added 32 acres to Riverside Park. It cost over $150 million in 1930 dollars—more than $2 billion today. In 1934, the High Line opens to trains. It runs from 34th Street to St. John’s Park Terminal, at Spring Street. It is designed to go through the center of blocks, rather than over the avenue, to avoid creating the negative conditions associated with elevated subways. It connects directly to factories and warehouses, allowing trains to roll right inside buildings. Milk, meat, produce, and raw and manufactured goods come and go without causing street-level traffic.
No trains have run on the High Line since 1980 - the last train ran on the High Line pulling three carloads of frozen turkeys. 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, and in 2003, an open ideas competition, "Designing the High Line," solicited proposals for the High Line's reuse. 720 teams from 36 countries entered - hundreds of design entries were displayed at Grand Central Terminal. The selected team was established in 2004: James Corner Field Operations, a landscape architecture firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, an architecture firm, and experts in horticulture, engineering, security, maintenance, public art, and other disciplines.
In 2006, groundbreaking is celebrated on the High Line with the lifting of a rail track, and the beginning of construction begins. On June 9, 2009, the first section (Gansevoort Street to West 20th Street) opens to the public. The second section (West 20th Street to West 30th Street) is projected to open in spring, 2011.
When all sections are complete, the High Line will be a mile-and-a-half-long elevated park, running through the West Side neighborhoods of the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea and Clinton/Hell's Kitchen. It features an integrated landscape, combining meandering concrete pathways with naturalistic plantings. Fixed and movable seating, lighting, and special features are also included in the park.
Access points from street level will be located every two to three blocks. Many of these access points will include elevators, and all will include stairs.
For more information, visit: www.thehighline.org
Yesterday after checking out the gorgeous Flower Festival in the Meatpacking District, we visited Hector’s Cafe & Diner on Little West 12th Street tucked directly underneath the High Line. This old-school diner has been in business since 1949 & still serves hamburgers 🍔made with beef from Weichsel Beef Conpany, one of the last Meatpacking holdouts in the neighborhood. We wanted to help support this old-school spot and ordered two delicious Jumbo Beefburger Deluxes with fries 🍔 ( swipe left for 2nd photo).
The diner was once open 24 hours a day, serving in the early early morning not only the butchers working in the area but club goers and tourists staying at the nearby Standard High Line Hotel (swipe left for 3rd photo of interior of diner).
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To watch our livestream visit to Hector’s Cafe and our walk around the @meatpackingny and @leafflowershow (swipe left for 4th photo) please visit our JamesandKarla YouTube channel, see direct link below & in bio and IG story.
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Calm slaughterhouses and packing plants in the Meatpacking District on a Sunday with parked delivery trucks under the High Line Park
Ruhige Schlachtereien und Verpackungsbetriebe im Meatpacking District an einem Sonntag mit abgestellten Liefer-LkWs unter dem High Line Park
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Yesterday after checking out the gorgeous Flower Festival in the Meatpacking District, we visited Hector’s Cafe & Diner on Little West 12th Street tucked directly underneath the High Line. This old-school diner has been in business since 1949 & still serves hamburgers 🍔made with beef from Weichsel Beef Conpany, one of the last Meatpacking holdouts in the neighborhood. We wanted to help support this old-school spot and ordered two delicious Jumbo Beefburger Deluxes with fries 🍔 ( swipe left for 2nd photo).
The diner was once open 24 hours a day, serving in the early early morning not only the butchers working in the area but club goers and tourists staying at the nearby Standard High Line Hotel (swipe left for 3rd photo of interior of diner).
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To watch our livestream visit to Hector’s Cafe and our walk around the @meatpackingny and @leafflowershow (swipe left for 4th photo) please visit our JamesandKarla YouTube channel, see direct link below & in bio and IG story.
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