The High Line Then And Now

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DNAinfo

Sneak Peek at New High Line Designs Show Train Car Cafe, Playground

CHELSEA — A train car-turned-food-shop, a beam-and-girder playground, and many more plants are all in store for the High Line's upcoming third section, according to documents obtained by DNAinfo.com New York.

The new plans for the High Line's final section show significant changes since renderings were originally presented in March, with more plants, a clearer path for visitors to walk on, and a unique new play area for kids.

Friends of the High Line presented the plans for the $90 million project as a draft to Community Board 4's Waterfronts and Parks Committee. They were meant to be released on Aug. 6.

The park's history of innovative design is on full display in the renderings, which show off a variety of new flourishes not seen in the park's first two sections. The final segment of the park travels west from West 30th Street and 10th Avenue, then loops up 12th Avenue around the West Side Rail Yards to West 34th Street.

Designers plan to put an actual boxcar at the very end of the High Line on West 34th Street that will open up to host a food vendor, currently called "Cold Train." Visitors will be able to enjoy their food in a new picnic area, complete with bright green umbrellas that spin in the wind.

The park's unique take on playgrounds include a "beam exploration area" west of 11th Avenue that, by coating them in rubber, turns the beams of the original High Line structure into a play area that kids can twist, turn and play hide-and-seek in.

A large, plant-filled section east of 11th Avenue is tentatively called the "Grasslands." Hanging vines also dangle off the sides of the elevated park in the new plans.

An interim walkway traveling up 12th Avenue has been enlarged since previous plans, creating more space to walk and more places to sit while maintaining aspects of the "wild" plants already on the elevated track.

CSX Transportation, the owner of the defunct stretch of railroad slated to become the final section of the High Line officially handed over the elevated structure to the city on Tuesday, clearing the way for construction of the park's much-anticipated third segment.

Construction on the project is expected to begin later this year.

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Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/2012...#ixzz224wdO6CE

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City Breaks ground On Final High Line Phase




http://www.thehighline.org/blog/2012...the-rail-yards

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High Line in the raw: Phase III before the big renovation.

Parts of these natural overgrowth areas will be preserved as is to remind park goers of the High line as it was first encountered by enthusiaists.

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Railyards at the High Line, Autumn View, New York's Elevated Garden and Park by lensepix, on Flickr

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Railyards at the High Line, Autumn View, New York's Elevated Garden and Park by lensepix, on Flickr

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In Construction> High Line Construction Reaches into Hudson Yards

Hudson Yards broke ground late last year, but the Kohn Pedersen Fox-designed tower that will one day be the headquarters of fashion-label Coach isn’t the only construction activity causing a buzz on the 26-acre site on Manhattan’s West Side. Wrapping around the south and west sides of the Hudson Yards site, construction crews are busy building out the final segment of the High Line, including sandblasting and refurbishing the steel viaduct, repainting the steel structure’s beams, girders, and columns with the High Line’s signature “Greenblack” color, and removing and storing existing railroad tracks. Landscape construction is expected to begin later this spring.

The Friends of the High Line recently stopped by the construction site with photographer Timothy Schenck to take these photos of work in progress.

all photos: http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/54759

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Final stretch of High Line to be shaped by Related’s Hudson Yards

The northernmost stretch of the High Line will frame and be defined by the Hudson Yards megaproject, and park officials and the development’s major players, such as Related Companies, are touting the benefits of each other’s projects to their own, Crain’s reported.

Related is currently focused on the the eastern portion of the development, and has secured Coach as an anchor tenant for its 1.7 million-square-foot building known as South Tower. Coach sees the tower’s proximity to the High Line as a major draw, company executives told Crain’s. ”The opportunity to build in the neighborhood — and to have the adjacency to the High Line — is something we’re very excited about,” said Jason Weisenfeld, senior vice president of global brand communications for Coach.

For their part, executives at the High Line are designing the park to be compatible with the multibillion-dollar development. “The High Line will adapt and change gradually with the neighborhood,” Peter Mullan, vice president for planning and design at Friends of the High Line, told Crain’s. “It will be a unique vantage point from which to see the transformation of Hudson Yards.”

Indeed, a large part of the third section of the park will be built as a temporary walkway, in anticipation of the changes that might be required as Hudson Yards takes shape. The interim section could remain for 15 years.

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Final stretch of High Line to be shaped by Related’s Hudson Yards

The northernmost stretch of the High Line will frame and be defined by the Hudson Yards megaproject, and park officials and the development’s major players, such as Related Companies, are touting the benefits of each other’s projects to their own, Crain’s reported.

Related is currently focused on the the eastern portion of the development, and has secured Coach as an anchor tenant for its 1.7 million-square-foot building known as South Tower. Coach sees the tower’s proximity to the High Line as a major draw, company executives told Crain’s. ”The opportunity to build in the neighborhood — and to have the adjacency to the High Line — is something we’re very excited about,” said Jason Weisenfeld, senior vice president of global brand communications for Coach.

For their part, executives at the High Line are designing the park to be compatible with the multibillion-dollar development. “The High Line will adapt and change gradually with the neighborhood,” Peter Mullan, vice president for planning and design at Friends of the High Line, told Crain’s. “It will be a unique vantage point from which to see the transformation of Hudson Yards.”

Indeed, a large part of the third section of the park will be built as a temporary walkway, in anticipation of the changes that might be required as Hudson Yards takes shape. The interim section could remain for 15 years.