The High Line is set to open next month and looks like the wave of promotion has already begun!  For people who don’t know about the High Line, it is a elevated freight rail track on the Far West Side that was abandoned since the 80s.  Over the years plants and grass started to grow and it become a hidden garden in the sky that very few people have a chance to see.  In 2006 a project was started to convert the High Line into a real park while preserving the track and the landscape that make this urban oasis so unique.

The Sundance website has a whole bunch of video shorts and photos looking at the past, present and future of the High Line.  It’s well worth checking it out!  I posted the one with Ethan Hawke below.  For me I just adore this type of post-industrial cityscape.  There is a character that a well design modern park doesn’t have –  a certain roughness and history.  Ever since I move to my neighborhood I have been expose to a similar post-industrial landscape by the waterfront and I fall deeper and deeper in love with it.  That is why I love the Williamsburg Waterfront Park at Kent and N. 8 so much.  And I suspect I will equally enjoy this High Line Park when it opens next month.

Related posts:

1. Thoughts on High Line
2. The High Line at Night
3. The High Line
4. Williamsburg Waterfront Sculpture Exhibition
5. North end of Gantry Plaza State Park

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