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The High Line belongs to all of us. Its our backyard, our community garden, our dance floor, our runway. We take care of it. We take pride in it. It’s your line, it’s our line, it’s #MyLine. Explore the people’s stories below and if you’re inspired to, share your own.
High Line Stories: With Kevin Bacon, Adrian Benepe, Amanda M. Burden, Joshua David. The series tells the story of the High Line in New York City, profiling those involved in transforming this neglected, 1.5 mile elevated railway into a park in the sky.
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Robert Hammond and Joshua David meet at a community board meeting on a sweltering night in mid-August. The future Co-Founders of Friends of the High Line listen to argument after passionate argument in favor of demolishing the High Line. “I stayed behind afterward, trying to find anyone else who was interested in saving the High Line,” recalls Robe...
A captivated Joel Sternfeld agrees to photograph the High Line after visiting the structure with Joshua and Robert. Over the course of a year, Sternfeld produces a beautiful, haunting collection of images that would become important tools for the fledgling organization. Only later did the Co-Founders discover that Joel was famous, and realize that ...
Friends of the High Line sues the City of New York under then-Mayor Giuliani’s administration to stop demolition of the High Line. Just days before leaving office, Giuliani signs the demolition papers – a major blow for the Friends.
Mayor Bloomberg assumes office, and Friends of the High Line works to gain the new administration’s support. As part of this push, the organization commissions an economic feasibility study; it determines that the new tax revenues will exceed costs of construction. And in March, Friends of the High Line prevails in its lawsuit against the City. As ...
With no money, no rights to the structure, and still no guarantee that the High Line was safe from demolition, Friends of the High Line initiates the Ideas Competition. “The competition would be just for ideas – and the ideas didn’t have to be realistic, or fundable, or buildable,” says Robert. Without these constraints, participants would have a g...
The search begins for a design team able to harness the creative spirit exhibited in the Ideas Competition and channel it toward something buildable and maintainable. “How do you find the balance between preserving the magic that is up there and creating something new?” wondered Robert. Friends of the High Line and the City of New York carefully co...
In the spring of 2005, the Museum of Modern Art presented The High Line, an exhibition featuring designs renderings and a 20-foot model by James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, as well as Joel Sternfeld’s photographs. The MoMA exhibition introduced the High Line to a much wider audience. And it helped to ground the dream of th...
Construction crews break ground for Section 1 – running from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street – and 2 – running from 20th Street to 30th Street – of the High Line. In April, Friends of the High Line holds a groundbreaking ceremony. Hundreds of supporters gathered on the High Line, and thousands more at street level. “The crowd’s happiness for us an...
On June 8, section 1 of the High Line opens to visitors. The occasion is marked with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. “And then, snip, after all those speeches and all those years of work, it was over,” recalls Josh. Although the event hadn’t been publicized, there was a rush of people to the park, excited to be among the first visitors. More than four m...
Construction on Section 2 continues at a rapid pace. Trees bound for the Chelsea Thicket arrive in August. In October, the 26th Street Viewing Spur’s steel frame is installed. By December, crews finish rolling out sodon the 23rd Street Lawn.
1924. The West Side Improvement project first began when the city’s Transit Commission ordered the removal of street-level crossings; this later led to a plan to remove tracks from the streets and create an elevated rail line. 1933. The first train ran on the High Line—which was then called the “West Side Elevated Line.”
10 years ago. Matt Wolf. High Line Stories was an interstitial broadcast and branded content series produced by the Sundance Channel. The series premiered during the opening of the High Line, a 1.5 mile-long elevated park on an abandoned railway on Manhattan’s west side.
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11 de may. de 2024 · Synopsis. The series tells the story of the High Line in New York City, profiling those involved in transforming this neglected, 1.5 mile elevated railway into a park in the sky.
