High Line Park
Friends of the high line raises nearly 100 of the high lines annual budget.
High line park. Use our high line map to find a place to lounge outdoors or plan a stroll down chelseas elevated park. Saved from demolition by neighborhood residents and the city of new york the high line opened in 2009 as a hybrid public space where visitors experience nature art and design. The high line is a 145 mile long 233 km elevated linear park greenway and rail trail created on a former new york central railroad spur on the west side of manhattan in new york city. It is owned by the city of new york and maintained and operated by friends of the high line.
Hotels near central park. This refurbished railroad track has been made into a wide walkingrunning trail that has wood planks that run high above the streets. Bars bars near the high line. Constructed 30 feet above the ground it avoided dangerous street crossings and routed between 10th and 11th streets in its more northern sections the railway avoided.
The high line is a public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on manhattans west side. Hotels near the high line. The high line is an elevated freight rail line transformed into a public park on manhattans west side. Owned by the city of new york the high line is a public park programmed maintained and operated by friends of the high line in partnership with the new york city department of parks recreation.
The high lines design is a collaboration between james corner field operations project lead diller scofidio renfro and piet oudolf. High line map for sightseeing around the park. High line elevated nyc park rail trail from 1934 to 1980 an elevated rail line now called the high line connected the rail yards of mid town manhattan to an industrial district along the lower west side of manhattan.