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High Line Celebrates Its One-Year Anniversary
June 09, 2010 | Author: Auzelle Epeneter | Categories: , , , , , , ,

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A Year in Pictures
It's been a year! One year ago today, the first section of the High Line opened to the public. The High Line's first year as a public park has been extraordinary, with more than two million visitors from New York and around the world coming to see and experience the park. To reflect upon our first year, we wanted to share with you our favorite photographs.

Celebration Tonight
Please join us tonight for a special talk and reception in the Chelsea Market Passage on the High Line. Peter Mullan, our Vice President of Planning & Design, will present and discuss plans for Section 2. Immediately following Peter's talk, we will host a reception with Appalachian stringband music by Stephanie Coleman, Eamon O'Leary, and Cleek Schrey, and refreshments available from People's Pops. Festivities begin at 6:30 PM. Visit our Events Calendar to learn more.

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We're also offering promotions on items in our Web Shop. Get a code for 50% discount, or win an umbrella by tweeting us your favorite memory with the hash-tag, #highlinebirthday.

Rail Yards ULURP Vote
Our first anniversary is enough cause to celebrate, but today also brings good news on our effort to preserve the High Line at the West Side Rail Yards. We are pleased to announce that the City Planning Commission led by Chair Amanda Burden today voted to approve the City's application to allow it to acquire the High Line at the rail yards.

While there is still much to be done to guarantee the High Line's future at the rail yards, creating the option for the City to acquire this section is a major, positive step toward our ultimate goal: full preservation of the High Line north of 30th Street, including the 10th Avenue Spur, and completion of the High Line all the way to 34th Street.

Today's vote paves the way for the final vote at the City Council. We would like to thank Mayor Michael Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, City Planning Chair Amanda Burden and our supporters who have joined us in advocating for the High Line at the rail yards, including Congressman Jerold Nadler, State Senator Tom Duane, Assembly Member Richard Gottfried, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, and Community Board 4. We look forward to seeing everyone at the City Council in the coming weeks to advocate for the full preservation of this iconic part of New York's industrial history.

Friends of the High Line is grateful to The New York Community Trust — LuEsther T. Mertz Advised Fund and the Greenacre Foundation for their dedicated support to our rail yards advocacy and public programming this year.

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A Magic Combo: WFMU & the High Line
June 04, 2010 | Author: Julia Boyer | Categories: , , ,

Here's a special treat for your Friday afternoon: a photo recap of our first live broadcast on the High Line.

EnlargeWFMU on the High Line.

This past Memorial Day, WFMU's DJ/rupture and DJ Trent broadcast live from the southern end of the High Line beneath The Standard Hotel. The music was accompanied by a live performance from Minusbaby, interviews with Friends of the High Line's very own Danya Sherman, Lauren Ross, and Patrick Cullina, and free stargazing put on by our friends from the Amateur Astronomer's Association.

The mix of people, music, nature, and summery weather was a real job to experience, and we hope to hold more events like this in the future. Click the image below to view WFMU on the High Line.

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All photos by Yoon Kim, unless otherwise specified.

Check out other free programming on the High Line this summer.


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Romantic Gardens: Panel Discussion at the Morgan Library
June 02, 2010 | Author: Julia Boyer | Categories: , ,

EnlargePatrick Cullina, Friends of the High Line
Vice President of Horticulture & Park
Operations.

As part of the launch of a new exhibit entitled Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design, Patrick Cullina, our Vice President for Horticulture & Park Operations, will join a panel discussion tonight at the Morgan Library on park landscape design. How Romantic is Now? Spotlight on Contemporary Landscape Design will examine the influence of the romantic period on contemporary landscape design.

Joining Patrick will be: Douglas Reed, Partner, Reed Hilderbrand; Michael Van Valkenburgh, Principal, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (Brooklyn Bridge Park); and Thomas Woltz, Partner, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies and founding president of the Central Park Conservancy, will moderate the discussion.

Event Details
Wednesday, June 2
6:30 - 8:00 PM
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10018

Tickets are $10 for members of the Morgan Library and $15 for non-members. The exhibition will open early at 5:30 PM for program attendees to view before the panel discussion. For more information, please call (212) 685-0008 ext. 560 or visit the Morgan Library's website.


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High Line Art: Richard Galpin's Viewing Station
May 07, 2010 | Author: Kate Lindquist | Categories: , ,

EnlargeA rendering by the artist.

Later this evening, Friends of the High Line will debut Richard Galpin’s Viewing Station, a new interactive public art exhibit that offers abstracted views of buildings and streetscapes adjacent to the High Line. Viewing Station invites park visitors to peek into a view finder that aligns with a screen cut with geometric shapes. The resulting view emphasizes neighboring buildings’ texture and color.

Following the debut, artist Richard Galpin will speak in the Chelsea Market Passage on the High Line about the evolution of Viewing Station and his other work.

With its clean lines and sharp angles, Viewing Station encourages park visitors to see and experience the views from the High Line in a whole new way. Viewing Station is located on the High Line between 17th and 18th Streets. It is free and open to all and will be on display through Spring 2011.Read the press release.

Viewing Station is the latest exhibit in High Line Art, a program that commissions new and innovative artwork for the High Line. With more than 2,000,000 visitors to the High Line since it opened less than a year ago, High Line Art introduces contemporary artists to a wide audience and provides park visitors with a unique and enriching experience.

Interested in learning more about Galpin's Viewing Station and other public art on the High Line? Join Lauren Ross, Friends of the High Line's Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Curator & Director of Arts Programs on a walking tour on Sunday at 10:30 AM as part of New York Gallery Week. Space is limited to the first 25 people who arrive. Meet at the Gansevoort Place (under the High Line at Gansevoort and Washington Streets.)

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Danya Sherman at Central Park
March 15, 2010 | Author: Julia Boyer | Categories:

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As a part of Central Park Conservancy's monthly Harlem Meer Social Hour, Danya Sherman, our Deputy Director of Programs & Education, will give a talk and Q&A entitled On the Right Track: A Conversation With Friends of the High Line.

Thursday, March 18, 2010
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Central Park at the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center
110th Street between 5th and Lenox Avenues
Cost: FREE

Refreshments are provided. Advanced registration not required. For more information, visit the Central Park Web site, or call (212) 860-1370. This event does not require an RSVP.

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2009 in Pictures
January 01, 2010 | Author: admin | Categories: , , , , , , , , , ,

Dear Friends,

2009 has been a remarkable year for the High Line. After spending the spring working on the final stages of construction, we opened the first section of the park in June. Since then, we estimate that nearly 2 million people have visited. We hope you were among these first visitors to the High Line, and that you return again and again in 2010.

The High Line's first year as a public park has been truly amazing. We've pulled together some of our favorite pictures from this incredible, historic year. We hope you enjoy them!

We hope you'll continue to support the High Line as we prepare for 2010.

Many thanks, and happy New Year,


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2009
 

Park visitors stroll and relax on the Diller von Furstenberg Sundeck between 14th and 15th Streets. The Sundeck is one of the High Line's most popular gathering spots, especially for sunbathers on bright summer days, and as a place to watch the sunset. Photo by Iwan Baan

"...The High Line is a hit, and not just with tourists but with New Yorkers who are openly relishing a place where they can reflect and relax enough to get a new perspective on Manhattan."
– Diane Cardwell, For High Line Visitors, Park is a Railway Out of Manhattan, New York Times

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This Weekend: Openhousenewyork on the High Line!
October 08, 2009 | Author: admin | Categories: , ,

OHNY on the High Line.
 

For the seventh year, Friends of the High Line will participate in the annual openhousenewyork weekend; the largest architect and design event in America. This year, our first year of participation with the park open to the public, we invite guests to join us on the High Line for a series of eight engaging talks led by people involved in various aspects of the design, planning and construction process. These lectures will provide deeper insight into the story of the transformation of the High Line from an abandoned freight line to a successful public space.

This years OHNY weekend will take place on Saturday, October 10th and Sunday, October 11th. Please note: an error in the OHNY brochure asks guests to RSVP. RSVP's are not being accepted for this years OHNY weekend on the High Line. All lectures are first come first served.

All talks will take place in the 14th Street passage on the High Line, just South of the 14th Street stairs. All talks will take place rain or shine. We look forward to seeing you there!

[Read more for a full schedule.]

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Saturday, October 3rd: The Drop
October 03, 2009 | Author: admin | Categories: ,

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THE DROP: URBAN ART INFILL is a day long festival of public interactive art, music, and fashion projects on 25th Street between 10th & 11th avenues happening tomorrow, October 3, 2009.  After wandering through the exhibitions, check out the party under the High Line at 25th Street!

This event is an all–volunteer collaboration of designers, architects, and curators with developers in Chelsea to open up space in the city for public interactions with artists, producers, and city-dwellers.  The festival seeks also to provide space in the center of Chelsea and bring together developers, business owners, the art community and New York communities to think locally and globally.

For more press visit:

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Village Voice

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Kitchen Block Party this Saturday!
September 21, 2009 | Author: admin | Categories: , , ,

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This Saturday brings the Kitchen Block Party, free neighborhood street festival the High Line, put on by the Kitchen, one of our favorite arts partners. It happens from 12 Noon to 5 PM on West 19th St. between 10th and 11th Aves.

We'll be there, with a booth featuring interactive art projects by Kim Beck and Michael DeFeo. There will also be great food, live performances, and craft and activity booths led by artists.

It will be lots of fun for all ages!  Take a walk on the High Line, then check it out!

Download the Flyer

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PARK(ing) Day NYC this Friday
September 16, 2009 | Author: admin | Categories: , , , , , ,

Parking Day 2008 Video from Streetfilms



Park(ing) Day, one of our favorite yearly public space happenings, takes to the New York City streets this Friday!

This international event transforms metered parking spaces into playgrounds, parks, creative installations, and unusual meeting-grounds for all to hit the pavement and enjoy. Converting car-intended spots throughout the five boroughs, these park(ing) spaces are a great example of  street-space reclaimed. Park(ing) Day's mission doesn't sound too far off from the High Line's reclamation of  space for the public.

Last year the High Line participated in the Park(ing) Day extravaganza, one of 57 spaces across the city. This year, our newly-opened park hovers 30 feet higher than most parking spaces, but encourages you to check out a nearby Park(ing) Day space on ground level. A map and description of all the spots is here.

One of our favorites is right here in the neighborhood.  Weave the Hearts, sponsored by the West Harlem Art Fund and created by Japanese artist Shintaro Tokairin, can be located at 400 W. 14th Street, near 9th Avenue. Tokairin has created a woven installation piece which will encapsulate the space, inviting visitors to relax and indulge in the artistically-inspired parking spot.


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