Rusty Railroad Advances on Road to Pristine Park

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

I am so excited for this!!!! This is the only good thing Bloomberg is gonna allow happen (i hope :eyes:). Check out the slide show for more pics!!!
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Rusty Railroad Advances on Road to Pristine Park

By PAUL VITELLO
Published: June 15, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/15/nyregion/15highline.html



Plans for the city's first elevated park - a singular ribbon of green space stretching a mile and a half along an abandoned railroad viaduct 30 feet above the streets of Chelsea - have taken a major step forward with a favorable ruling by a federal transportation board.

The ruling, on Monday, essentially cleared the way for the city to begin negotiating use and development of the High Line, a weed-overgrown railroad bed that has not been used since the late 1960's and that, seen from above, looks like a painter's thick stroke of brilliant green along the gritty Lower West Side of Manhattan, between 34th Street and Gansevoort Street, in the meatpacking district.

If the plans materialize, the project would become one of only two elevated parks in the world; the other, also carved out of an abandoned railroad viaduct, is the Promenade Plantée in Paris.

"This is one of the most unique open spaces in the world," said Amanda M. Burden, chairwoman of the New York City Planning Commission and an outspoken advocate of the High Line project. "You will be able to walk 22 blocks in the city of New York without ever coming in contact with a vehicle. People will see the city from a completely unique perspective."

[K-W]

1. I cant wait to take a walk through that park.

Its very exciting.

[brooklynite]

2. What it could look like

This is the Promenade Plantee in Paris, built on the top of an abandoned railway viaduct.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

3. Fucking Beautiful!!!

come NY, lets do something good please! hehe