The High Line Blog

  • Green Corps Celebrates 2015 Accomplishments

    By Green Corps Leaders, Emma Leavens & Myrna Cabán Lezcano August 31, 2015
    Led by High Line Educators, Green Corps is an education and job-training program that offers local teens hands-on experience in horticulture and green jobs. For six and a half months, teens: learn about plant science, horticultural practices, green professions, food justice, and other green commu... read more

  • Plant of the Week: Big Bluestem

    By Isabella Yeager August 31, 2015
    The High Line's planting design is inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew up between rail tracks after the trains stopped running in the 1980s. Today, the High Line includes more than 300 species of perennials, grasses, shrubs, and trees – each chosen for their hardiness, adaptability, d... read more

  • Elevated Eats: La Newyorkina

    By Amelia Krales August 28, 2015
    Seasoned High Line Food vendor La Newyorkina has been sharing their delicious Mexican popsicles, called paletas, with our visitors for years. We are huge fans of these refreshing confections and are very excited to follow founder and chef, Fany Gerson, around for this edition of Elevated Eats.We ... read more
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  • Photo of the Week: Four Seasons in the Forest

    By Erika Harvey August 28, 2015
    The High Line's Chelsea Thicket in summer. Photo by Juan Valentin Walking through the Chelsea Thicket, on the High Line between West 21 st and West 22nd Streets, is one of the closest experiences you'll have to being in a forest in the middle of Manhattan. This short stretch features... read more

  • Throwback Thursday: Westbeth Building, Then & Now

    By Erika Harvey August 27, 2015
    Photo by Juan Valentin If you've walked to the High Line's southernmost tip, you've likely noticed the abrupt – yet visually captivating – way the park ends. Long ago, during the years that freight trains still chugged along these elevated tracks, the High Line cut a straight path all the ... read more

  • Plant of the Week: Cardinal Flower

    By Isabella Yeager August 24, 2015
    The High Line's planting design is inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew up between rail tracks after the trains stopped running in the 1980s. Today, the High Line includes more than 300 species of perennials, grasses, shrubs, and trees – each chosen for their hardiness, adaptability, d... read more

  • Zaha Hadid-Designed Construction Shed Provides a Unique Way to Shield Park Visitors from Construction

    August 24, 2015
    High Line visitors walk underneath a shed designed by architect Zaha Hadid. Photo by Scott Lynch.Visitors walking on the High line will notice a truly unusual new structure in the park: a specially designed construction shed that covers the High Line near West 28th Street. The shed was created by... read more
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  • Gardening in the Sky: Removing Noxious Weeds and Protecting Our Ecosystem

    By Erin Eck August 20, 2015
    The self-seeded landscape that runs above the High Line at the Rail Yards gives visitors a chance to see what the High Line looked like before it became a park. During the structure's years of disuse, an assortment of wild plants took hold in the gravel ballast. In the Western Rail Yards section ... read more

  • Photo of the Week: Walking the High Line with Joel Sternfeld

    By Erika Harvey August 19, 2015
    A Railroad Artifact, 30th Street, May 2000. Photo by Joel Sternfeld, courtesy of Luhring Augustine New York Today, on World Photo Day, we are reminded of the power of photography, both for the world at large and for our organization. From Friends of the High Line's inception, to pres... read more

  • Plant of the Week: Rattlesnake Master

    By Isabella Yeager August 17, 2015
    The High Line's planting design is inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew up between rail tracks after the trains stopped running in the 1980s. Today, the High Line includes more than 300 species of perennials, grasses, shrubs, and trees – each chosen for their hardiness, adaptability, d... read more