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The City and the Friends of the High Line have selected Diller, Scofidio & Renfro and Field Operations to design the master plan for the High Line on the West Side of Manhattan. Naturally, their plan includes renderings with all sorts of crazy scale figures dancing around.
The High Line was built in the 1930s, elevating rail traffic above the streets, which reduced the accidents in the area. When finally completed, the elevated railway stretched for 13 miles. The final train ran on the High Line in 1980 and sections still stand on the West Side, spanning over 20 blocks. With all the precious land that the High Line is on, there were many that called for the development of the space, but preservationists prevailed, saving the High Line from demolition.
There were originally four teams selected to design the master plan: Diller, Scofidio & Renfro, Zaha Hadid Architects, Steven Holl Architects, erraGRAM: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. See all their plans here, "Four teams Four Visions". The plan from Diller, Scofidio & Renfro, and Field Operations, has concrete walkways that run on the rail line, with different types of gardens along the sides.
Related, see Jake's photo gallery of the High Line.
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Was the High-Line the track used as a bsse for the scene where Spiderman just about manages to stop the train from plunging into the murky depths of the river in S-2 ?
The High Line is currently private property, owned by CSX railroad. It is not open to the public. Please do not trespass.
It's asinine that they're turning it into a park -we have plenty of park in this city. What we really could have used is another subway line, which this would have been ideal for. *sigh*
Why has no one recommended turning the High Line into a light-rail line like the ones we have in Hudson County in New Jersey? A twenty-block elevated trolley would be far, far more useful.
However jazzy the renderings, a process of budgeting and public input will reduce any plan to a nice-but-dull landscaped walkway that mostly tourists will use. I agree that a trolly would have returned more bang for the buck.
FYI - Field Operations is the name of James Corner and Stan Allen's landscape firm, not the name of the project.
i guess that's what i get for trying to do an entry at 7 am?
Earlier this summer I toured the High Line (I didn't know it was private property, but I also didn't ask). I took some photos which can be found here: http://blog.bradwilson.us/photos/high_line/index.html
The reason I'm posting this is that in all the photo essays I've seen of the Line, I've never seen anyone have photos of the metal sculptures in one of the abandoned stations. I thought they were great, some of them were very delicate. I've got a few examples in the above photo essay.
The Highline would be better served as an extension southward of the #7 Flushing Line, if it's extended west and south from Times Square....
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Tenth%20Ave%20trestle/Tenth.html