The High Line is one of my favorite parts of NYC. I am very impressed with the proposal for the 11th Street pedestrian bridge but I have concerns about the cost and the location (next to I-295 and immediately surrounded by six lanes of roads).
As D.C. embraces its industrial past, New York’s High Line Park shows the way
By Jonathan O'Connell
November 25, 2014
Washington Post
"NEW YORK – Julian Hunt went to see the High Line Park in New York City’s West Side before it was even open.
Hunt, a D.C. architect, made the trip as part of a painstaking labor of love. For the better part of a decade, he has been attempting to convert a series of abandoned concrete tunnels beneath Dupont Circle, where streetcars once rumbled, into a menagerie of art galleries, performance space, cafes and exhibitions.
Early into his effort, Hunt visited the High Line, a mile-and-a-half long park built atop a railroad platform near the Hudson River that is different parts leisurely path, art exhibit, garden and engine of what is now one of Manhattan’s fastest growing neighborhoods..."
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