The High Line Blog

  • Ed Devlin, Former New York Central Railroad Worker

    By admin January 8, 2010
    Ed Devlin, on his wedding day in 1950, and working at the Metropolitan Museum in 2009  We were recently lucky enough to speak with a former New York Central Railroad employee named Ed Devlin. Sixty years ago, Ed worked at the rail yards that fed onto the High Line when it was part of a wor... read more

  • NEW! High Line Web Shop

    By admin January 7, 2010
    High Line Opening Season Umbrella.  We're proud to announce the launch of our new High Line Web Shop! Our Web Shop is the only place you can find High Line gear like our wind-proof opening season umbrella, our stylish High Line Sigg aluminum water bottle, publications like Designing the H... read more
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  • Fire Escape Music

    By admin January 5, 2010
    If you visited the High Line this past summer, you may have been pleasantly surprised by the High Line Renegade Cabaret, a free show of Jazz singing played from a fire escape on 20th Street. Justin Sullivan, a musically-inclined downstairs neighbor, put on some shows of his own, recruiting loc... read more

  • 2009 in Pictures

    By admin January 1, 2010
    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 ... read more

  • The High Line is Open on New Year's Day

    By admin December 31, 2009
    Via ButterFly Project's Flickr Photostream.  Ring in the new year by strolling the High Line! The park will be open New Year's Day (regular winter hours of 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM). In case of extreme inclement weather any time this winter, please check our Web site and/or twitter for info on p... read more

  • Where Have All the Trailers Gone?

    By admin December 23, 2009
    In addition to all the shoveling the High Line staff did to keep the park open this weekend, our temporary Maintenance & Operations facility has been moved down to the southern entrance of the High Line, at street level. In order to get ready for the joining of Section 1 to Section 2 (still unde... read more

  • The First Big Snow

    By admin December 23, 2009
    If you haven't already caught glimpses of the High Line dressed in white, check out this snow-strewn photo that our Maintenance & Operations staff took this weekend. The Diller - von Furstenberg Sundeck under a white blanket.  In order to clear the snow, the crew used various tools and eq... read more

  • High Line among New York Times 2009 Architectural Triumphs

    By admin December 21, 2009
    Photo by Librado Romero/The New York Times.  "Despite the fears and anxieties of many [...] that rapacious developers would transform the High Line into a glorified mall," Nicolai Ouroussoff wrote last week in the New York Times,  "it has already become–just five months after the com... read more

  • Lab School Chorus Braves the Cold to Bring the Cheer

    By admin December 18, 2009
    Photo by Joan Garvin  Last night, students from Chelsea's NYC Lab School Chorus braved the bitter temperature and biting wind for a holiday concert in the High Line's Chelsea Market passage. The kids gamely ran through their repertoire, from seasonal selections like "Walking in a Winter Wo... read more

  • An Award for the High Line

    By admin December 17, 2009
    We are proud to announce that the High Line has been bestowed with an award from the U.S. section of the International Association of Art Critics: First Prize for "Best Show in a Public Space."  I have the honor of accepting this award at a reception at the Guggenheim Museum, alongside esteemed c... read more