The High Line Blog

  • PHOTOS: Explosive Dance Performance on the High Line

    By Erika Harvey November 21, 2011
    Below The Standard, New York, dancers in boldly colored costumes do acrobatic kicks as part of Half-Mythical, Half-Legendary Americanism. Photo by Liz Ligon.  On November 12 and 14, visitors gathered to watch dancers in brightly colored costumes jump, run, kick, and cartwheel along the ... read more

  • We're Thankful

    By Kate Lindquist November 21, 2011
    Fall foliage near the Falcone Flyover, on the High Line at West 25th Street. Photo by Joan Garvin.  This week we celebrate Thanksgiving at the High Line. Thank you for supporting us do all of the things we do to keep the park thriving. We have much to be thankful for this year. We opened... read more
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  • Jane Fonda Meets Rodchenko on the High Line

    By Kate Lindquist November 18, 2011
    Half-Mythical, Half-Legendary Americanism. read more
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  • Jane Fonda Meets Rodchenko on the High Line

    By Kate Lindquist November 18, 2011
    Half-Mythical, Half-Legendary Americanism. read more
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  • Jane Fonda Meets Rodchenko on the High Line

    By Kate Lindquist November 18, 2011
    Half-Mythical, Half-Legendary Americanism. read more
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  • Chelsea Bike Lanes Become Even Greener

    By Erika Harvey November 17, 2011
    Senator Tom Duane, here with Chelsea Garden Club members in front of a volunteer's handiwork at 25th & Ninth Avenue, championed the pit gardens and got the green light to plant in the bike-lane tree pits.  We would like to give a shout out to our friends at the Chelsea Garden Club. Th... read more

  • Construction Update: Whitney Museum and High Line Headquarters

    By Kate Lindquist November 9, 2011
    The southern terminus of the High Line overlooks the construction site for the new downtown location of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the High Line Headquarters.  Near the High Line’s southern terminus, crews are hard at work preparing to pour the foundations for the new downtown... read more

  • Field Trip: A Look at Philadelphia's Reading Viaduct

    By Kate Lindquist November 8, 2011
    Friends of the High Line staff take a tour of the Reading Viaduct with members of the non-profit group dedicated to creating a public park in the space, Viaduct Greene. Photo by Rick Darke.  New York City is not the only urban center in the United States with an elevated railway like the H... read more

  • High Line is Haunted by Ghost Train Created by Kids

    By Erika Harvey November 4, 2011
    Before it was transformed into a public park, the High Line carried freight trains to and from the warehouses and factories along Manhattan’s West Side. Today, the High Line serves as a tool to teach kids about the city’s industrial history.  Halloween Hi-Jinks on the High Line is one of ... read more

  • PHOTOS: High Line Book Release Party

    By Erika Harvey November 3, 2011
    October 18 marked the anticipated official release of High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky, which tells the over decade of work that went into transforming the first two sections of the High Line from once-abandoned elevated railway into the innovative public park i... read more
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