Friends of the High Line

LOOK: High Line's Spring Benefit

Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Ny Parties, Nyc Parks, Diane Von Furstenberg, High Line, Barry Diller, High Line Spring Benefit, Friends of the High Line, Slideexpand, Sarah Jessica Parker, New York News

Friends of the High Line hosted their annual Spring Benefit on Tuesday, where some of the park's biggest fans including $20 million donors Diane von F...

Read Whole Story

LOOK: Giant Jeff Koons Train Could Hang Above The High Line

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Jeff Koons, Video, New York Real Estate, NY Around Town, New York Around Town, Jeff Koons Train, High Line, NY Real Estate, New York Travel, Friends of the High Line, Ny Travel, New York News

Artist Jeff Koons could bring a full-size replica of a 1943 Baldwin 2900 steam locomotive to New York City's High Line. The train wouldn't be on the ...

Read Whole Story

PHOTOS: Designs For New Section Of HIgh Line Unveiled

AP | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: New-York-City-Department-of-Parks-and-Recreation, High-Line-New-York, Meatpacking District, New York Around Town, NY Around Town, High Line, New York Travel, Friends of the High Line, Ny Travel, High Line Park, Chelsea, New York News

NEW YORK -- New York City parks officials and advocates have unveiled designs for the third and final section of the High Line, an elevated stretch of...

Read Whole Story

PHOTOS: The Secret Gay History Of New York's High Line

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Urban Renewal, High Line Gay History, New York High Line Park, High Line, Friends of the High Line, Urban Recovery, High Line Park, New York City, New York, Gay Voices News

The not-so-secret gay history of one of New York City's most revered urban reclamation projects is being revealed in both a new book and discussion. ...

Read Whole Story

Mysterious New York Skywriting Freaks Everyone Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Skywriting, Nyc Skywriting, New York Art Projects, New York Sky Writing, Art Project, Sky Art, Lost Our Lease, Nyc Art, Friends of the High Line, Sky Is the Limit Nyc, New York News

NEW YORK -- On an unseasonably warm Sunday afternoon on Pier 6 in Brooklyn, hundreds of people craned their necks and looked up toward the sky at a cr...

Read Whole Story

At The High Line, A Different Kind Of Book Club Begins

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Video, Alexandra Lange, Alexandra-Lange, Architecture, High Line, Friends of the High Line, High Line Park, The High Line, New York City, New York, Culture News

NEW YORK -- First there was High Line exhibitionism. Then came High Line boot camp. And now a book club has met on the High Line. It wasn't a norma...

Read Whole Story

Rails and Roads to Trails

Kevin Walsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: West Side Highway, Lirr, Westway, West Side Freight Railroad, Chelsea, Staten Island North Shore, Long Island Rail Road, Vanderbilt Cup Race, Javits-Convention-Center, West Village, High Line, Long Island, Friends of the High Line, Standard Hotel, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, New York News

While the rehabilitation of the High Line as a lively urban space is one of the more exciting things to happen to NYC's streetscapes in years, it's not the first such transformation to take place.

Read Post

Hot Time Summer in the City

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hudson River Promenade, Manhattan, Summer Leisure, The Kindle, West Side Highway, Barry Diller, Friends of the High Line, Pastimes, The High Line, Richard Meier, Frank Gehry, Living, Aic, New York News

Because summer is a great time to explore the City, to take advantage of it, to appreciate it, to revel in it. This explains why many denizens will tell you that far from hustling out of town on weekends, they prefer staying in town.

Read Post

Photographers Wanted on High (Line)

Susan Sawyers | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: James Corner, Friends of the High Line, Meatpacking District, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Outdoors New York City, Flickr, Meadow, New York City, Urban Oasis, Piet-Oudolf, The High Line, Healthy Living News

Built on an abandoned train trestle that had become a trashed out urban eyesore, the unconventional green space, lush with wildflowers and happy urbanites, is an elevated park that won't let you down.

Read Post

Story of Reusing The City: Welcome to High Line

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Values, Parks, Trendspotting, Reuse, Trends, Green Living, High Line, Friends of the High Line, Bryant Park, New York City, New York, New York News

Here, a town with many (other) problems turned an eyesore into what New Yorkers value most -- a public space that cost us nothing out of pocket.

Read Post

New York's Highline Park Vision: Reclaiming Abandoned Urban Landscape (VIDEO)

Sundance | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, High Line, Friends of the High Line, City Living, Parks, Video, Green News

The High Line park project in New York City is a really cool one -- they're taking an old, unused elevated train track and turning it into a public sp...

Read Whole Story

Why Anya Hindmarch and I Are High on the High Line

Melissa Biggs Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anya Hindmarch, High Line, Friends of the High Line, Meatpacking-District, Adam Gopnik, Style News

The elevated railway in the Meatpacking district that is being transformed into the city's newest public park will open its first phase (from Gansevoort to 20th Street) next month.

Read Post