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Hudson Yards

Railyards on the West Side; Photo: AP

The city released its plans for its vision of a new West Side (centerpiece being a stadium for the Jets), called Hudson Yards. The city has a snazzy Hudson Yards website, complete with its vision, mission, proposal, photographs of the neighborhood, and a timeline. But Gothamist was struck by this photograph of the railyards the new development would replace, because there's something beautiful about this mass of trains in the middle of the city.

Gothamist on the West Side development. And there's an underrated movie from 2000 called The Yards, starring Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix, about the abandoned railyards in Queens.

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  • lwc

    I did a virtual walk through the Hudson Yards website...should become quite an impressive neighborhood.

  • rajiv

    dont forget The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ... another classic nyc subway movie.

  • crank

    having worked on "the yards" i wouldn't call it under-rated. but it is one of the only films to focus on the nyc subway system.

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