the High Line Concepts

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that same appeal: free space thick with history and ripe with potential. And there is undeniably a business case for opening up old transport infrastructure; the High Line in Manhattan is just a long walkway to nowhere in particular, but people love the chance to stroll where the trains once rattled along, and

New York City Like a Local

by Dk Eyewitness · 168pp · 33,675 words

, and much-needed respites from the city’s grid of steel, brick, and concrete. g OUTDOORS g Contents Green Spaces WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK PROSPECT PARK THE HIGH LINE ST. NICHOLAS PARK CENTRAL PARK BRYANT PARK BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK g Green Spaces g Contents Google Map WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK Map 1; entrance via Washington

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leave without practicing your vinyāsa flow at a class with Park Slope yoga studio Bend + Bloom in summer. g Green Spaces g Contents Google Map THE HIGH LINE Map 1; entrance via 30th Street and 11th Avenue, Hudson Yards; ///wipe.spray.goods; www.thehighline.org Nowhere better symbolizes New York’s ingenuity than

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the High Line. On what was once an elevated train track set for demolition, the urban park winds around fancy new apartment blocks – each twist and turn offering

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a vestige of old New York, especially if you carry on to Gansevoort Street, with its cobblestones. This is also a great place to start the High Line, where the magic continues above street level. g OUTDOORS g Contents Nearby Getaways Of course New Yorkers love their city, but sometimes a change of

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NIGHTLIFE Blue Note Bowery Poetry Club Comedy Cellar Cubbyhole Le Poisson Rouge Playhouse The Uncommons Village Underground OUTDOORS Elizabeth Street Elizabeth Street Garden Grove Street The High Line MacDougal Alley Ninth Avenue Washington Square Park g Maps g Contents ← MAP 2 → EAT Beauty & Essex Clinton St. Baking Company Essex Market Ferns Hotel Chantelle

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most fashionable areas. Along with its cobbled streets, boutique stores, exclusive clubs, and restaurants, the area is best known as being the southern terminus of the High Line—the section of the old New York Central Railroad that has been successfully reinvented as a three-mile-long elevated public park. Borthwick’s studio

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With a career that has encompassed investment banking, magazine journalism, and public service, Marron is currently chairman of the board of directors of Friends of the High Line; a trustee of the New York Public Library, where she was chairman of the board for seven years; and a contributing editor to Vogue. Also

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Gaudi, Antoni, 1 04 passim, 1 6, 42, 1 1 7, 1 30 Gehry, Frank, 1 04 Hezbollah, 1 1 7 Genoa, 1 1 6 the High Line, New York City, 75 H itler, Adolf, 1 07 George, Hen ry, 1 70n4 Georgia, 3 1 Germany, 1 5, 3 1 , 57, 1 08

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neighborhoods near Ground Zero but also implemented an ambitious redevelopment plan, featuring public-private partnerships that would lead to the construction of Hudson Yards and the High Line and building projects on both sides of the East River. Comebacks are part of New York’s DNA. The city rebounded after the 1970s, when

On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City

by Evan Friss · 6 May 2019 · 314pp · 85,637 words

fleet of cars, scooters, and bikes, all electric.6 On my regular, nonelectric, and perhaps soon to be vintage Citi Bike, I pedaled over to the High Line, one of a number of rails-to-trails projects across the country where defunct transportation corridors have morphed into inviting spaces for walkers, hikers, and

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) there is still no elevated bicycle highway in Manhattan. Perched a couple of stories off the ground and running over the west side of Manhattan, the High Line welcomes millions of visitors who amble between buildings and in their shadows, traversing a set of remnant elevated railroad tracks that have been handsomely woven

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and deafening loudness, has become a space littered with gourmet food carts and carefully curated art installations (and too many visitors). The crown jewel of the High Line is a descending amphitheater, which invites guests to sit on the oversized, wood-planked stairs and watch, through a series of glass panels, the street

The Startup Wife

by Tahmima Anam · 2 Jun 2021 · 297pp · 83,528 words

April. We sneak out of the house, and six hours later we’re standing in front of a wide industrial building. Across the street is the High Line, then the West Side Highway, and beyond that, the joggers and the piers and the flat expanse of the Hudson. There’s no sign and

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,” I say to Cyrus. “I love you,” Cyrus replies. We sit by the window with all the New York lights before us. Jules lives by the High Line now, just a few blocks south of Utopia, with bouquet after bouquet of buildings on either side. Gaby hands me a glass, and the wine

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by Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett · 27 Aug 2018 · 230pp · 71,834 words

to do with the interstate highways bisecting their city centers, and, unfortunately, Risom has no easy answer for them. “They think, ‘Oh, we’ll make the High Line,” says Rison, referring to a popular reclamation of an elevated freight rail line in Manhattan. “‘Or we’ll do this or that.’ But we have

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to tell them, ‘No you won’t, because this is eighteen times the scale of the High Line, in an area with one-twentieth the population density.’ We’ve got to be really careful with that. It’s romantic and it’s interesting

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a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was on the boards of the city’s ballet, of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, of Friends of the High Line. He began to be first-name-dropped. You know, Darren was saying the other day…Darren and I were on a panel, and…One day

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