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The High Line is set to open on some closely-guarded secret date (though we hear it's around June 15th), and until then, it's the A list, the rich, and Kevin Bacon only! Curbed has some shots up provided by an insider at a special event that took place on the Line last night, and included guests like Martha Stewart, Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg. For the rest of us non-celebs, we'll have to be content with these various spy cam shots, and maybe this recent interview with the founders of Friends of the High Line, who teamed up all those years ago to save and re-purpose the defunct elevated train line.
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I'm a big fan of this project, happy they didn't just demolish the lines.
i hope this gets destroyed in 10 minutes. since it's run and largely funded by a private conservancy, expect limited access and frequent closings for events that you aren't allowed anywhere near.
this isn't a park, it's a club.
seems a bit harsh. If its run and funded priovately then it is more or less a private affair- what would it be to you if someone else using thier own money built a park and then used it privately. Seems a bit ridiculous to hope it gets destroyed just because you feel like you could be left out. OVerall I think it's nice that a more or less private park is going to open to the public at all. Have you ever seen the inside of Grammercy Park? I haven't but that doesn't make me want to wish it ill will.
I'm a bit bummed at the inevitable "transforming rendering into something trhat is in budget and meets building codes" has watered down some of the proportions, but it still looks nice and I'm glad it's not run of the mill in its design and layout.
*tips hat. hopes the rest comes along quickly.
Bitter much? What would you prefer, that it remain closed to everybody as it has been for decades?
I'm looking forward to this. It'll be interesting to see how much they've changed it compared with what I remember. Not that I crawled under the fences. That would have been illegal. Oh, heck, it's been more than three years. Statute of limitations, suckers! Can't touch me now. I trespassed. So sue me, CSX.
that seems a bit single-minded, wobblesmith. city council members (including christine quinn, before she became speaker and gifford miller) have been fighting for the project, and assisting in securing public funding, for the high line for years. i imagine the funding goes through friends of the high line, just like central park conservancy receives funds to maintain CP, prospect park alliance for PP, and battery park conservancy for BP. just because this seems extra-cool doesn't mean it's going to be a club.
this is a managable size to shut down at will, however.
you'll see.
"South of 30th Street, the High Line is owned by the City of New York and is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks & Recreation. This section was donated to the City by CSX Transportation, Inc., which still owns the northernmost section (30th Street to 34th Street). The land beneath the High Line is owned in parcels by New York State, New York City, and more than 20 private property owner"(highline.org).
That being the case the Parks Dep't. sells or issues the permits for private affairs.
If only we could spend millions on something useful that stood a chance of getting built.
www.forgotten-ny.com
Rusty steel beams don't hold platforms up in the air safely forever. It's going to cost some major coin down the line and we need better things than this.