Posted Dec 30, 2024, 1:42 AM
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Location: Borough of Jersey
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Then you have nuts like this...
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/...the-high-line/
Opinion:
Not in my backyard. It will dwarf the High Line
By James Ferrari
December 29, 2024
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The views from my living room of my first apartment in New York City were of an abandoned elevated railway line covered in garbage and bramble. I worked for a nonprofit and was staying in what was then the General Theological Seminary founded by Clement Clarke Moore and is now The High Line Hotel, a 60-room luxury hotel with a Parisian themed garden on 10th Ave.
My old building has come a long way since the desolate stretch of rail and weeds was transformed into the High Line park, an innovative public space and 1.5 mile greenway with native plants and mesmerizing views that was developed with public input at every step, including an ideas competition to imagine ways the park could be used.
It has become a destination for New Yorkers and visitors alike to enjoy the scenery, art, and food, and has completely transformed the neighborhood. It is now vital to the community that helped determine what it became.
But that may not last. The developer Related Companies and the Wynn Resorts, which was founded by casino magnate Steve Wynn, are determined to build either a casino or a gargantuan convention center in the Western Rail Yards that will materially change and potentially undo the thriving ecosystem that New York has built around a vibrant public space.
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The New York skyline will always change but its shape should be determined by the residents of the city itself, not developers with dreams of supertall buildings and tourist revenues.
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