Park update: On Friday, October 31, the section of the High Line from 23rd Street to 30th Street will be temporarily closed from 7am – noon.
Visitors traveling north will need to exit at 23rd Street, travel along the street, and reenter at 30th Street. Visitors traveling south will need to exit at 23rd Street, travel along the street, and reenter at 30th Street.
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Although the days are getting shorter, we’re savoring the tranquility that accompanies longer nights on the High Line. 🌙
Whether you join us right at sunset or linger until the last possible moments, there’s magic all along the park in the later hours of the day. To make the most of a night on the park, the Friends of the High Line team recommends starting at the northern section of the park to view the illuminated candles that make up @TaiShani’s sculpture “The Sun Is a Flame That Haunts The Night,” taking a trip to see @ivan_argote’s “Dinosaur” against the glimmering backdrop of the Manhattan skyline, and admiring the evolving Flyover (25th – 27th Streets) and Widlflower Field (27th – 30th Streets).
Plan your next visit via the link in our bio, and meet us at the park any time before 10pm to catch these stunning views in person.
📷: Andrew Frasz, Liz Ligon
Have we mentioned how much we LOVE autumn on the High Line? The gardens are in their full fall splendor, and it`s the perfect time to pencil in time for some leaf peeping at our park in the sky!
Use the link below to learn more about the gardens` seasonal standouts and to plan your day seeing our horticulture team`s incredible work in person.
🍂: https://bit.ly/3KwFKpK
Image Credit: Timothy Schenck
Happy Halloween from Friends of the High Line team! 🎃
Spooky season isn`t just a one-day event on the High Line! Last week, we hosted our High Line Halloween: Little Park of Horrors event on the High Line, and we`ve still got the music from @LittleShopNYC on our minds! Celebrating this spook-tacular season in costume with our friends, Yung Oh Le Page, Miss Woman the woman, the New Victory Theater, Roselle Hayward and The Savvy Soul Line Dancers, and even the cast of Little Shop of Horrors has been one of the highlights of fall so far.
Thank you so much to and all our parkgoers who helped make this such a festive on the High Line!
Did you miss the event? Use the link below to sign up for our email updates to be sure you`re the first to know about our next fun and festive gathering!
📸: Rowa Lee
📆: https://bit.ly/4o3zftf
Howdy, New York—there’s a new sculpture in town! ✨
Commissioned by High Line Art, Raven Halfmoon (@ravenhalfmoon) presents “West Side Warrior,” a towering bust of a Native female horserider. Historically, busts have been commissioned to commemorate aristocrats, rulers, or military leaders. Halfmoon subverts these traditions, depicting an unidentified Indigenous woman with facial tattoos wearing a cowboy hat.
While the work is a nod to the artist’s Caddo heritage and connection to the American West, it also references the High Line’s history. In the mid-19th century, the railway employed men on horseback—nicknamed West Side Cowboys—in an effort to reduce rates of pedestrian injury and death from street-level freight trains. Eventually, the cowboys were phased out, and the freight line was elevated off the street—creating what we now call the High Line.
We hope you stop by our park in the sky on the West Side to see “West Side Warrior” soon!
✨ “West Side Warrior,” Raven Halfmoon (@ravenhalfmoon)
📍On the High Line at Little West 12th Street
📆 September 2025 – August 2026
📸 Timothy Schenck (@timothyschenck)
🎨 Link in bio
October is not just spooky season—it`s also Bat Awareness Month! 🦇 We can`t think of a more perfect time to share our latest discoveries about the role the High Line is playing in bat migration!
Over the course of the late summer, Nic Comparato, a PhD student at Rutgers University and founder of @urbanbatstNYC, helped us conduct bat surveys to better understand the bat population on the park. Eastern red bats are common migrators throughout the United States, and thanks to an echolocation-recording device that was stationed on the High Line`s 23rd Street Lawn, we now also know they can be found in ample abundance right on our park! While the most commonly found bat on the High Line was the eastern red bat, the survey also identified multiple occurrences of hoary bats on the park as well.
Given that, of the 40 species of bats in the United States, half are in severe decline or endangered, we’re thrilled to know that the High Line can play its small part in supporting these misunderstood creatures so critical to our gardens’ ecosystems. Thank you once again to Nic Comparato, whose research efforts have helped illuminate how the High Line`s gardens serve as a valuable source of food and shelter for migrating bats.
Use the link in our bio to read about the full findings of the study and learn more about bats on the High Line on our blog!
Photo Credit: Ayinde Listhrop, Rowa Lee (@aloarowa)
Happy 81st birthday to Piet Oudolf (@pietoudolf), the original garden designer of the High Line! 🥳 It was wonderful to see you this past week here on the park!
Piet’s artistry, expertise, and pioneering naturalistic approach to garden design brought the magic of this once-derelict railway`s self-seeded landscape to life in collaboration with Field Operations (project lead) (@fieldoperations) and Diller Scofidio Renfro (@diller_scofidio_renfro). It is an immense privilege for our team to keep Piet`s vision for the High Line alive in our horticulture practices, and the Friends of the High Line team is grateful for all the ways Piet has continued to support the High Line 15+ years on. In particular, it`s extra special when we get the opportunity to spend time with Piet in our ever-evolving gardens, as we did late last week during his recent travels on the East Coast!
Join us today in continuing the celebration by wishing Piet Oudolf a happy birthday in the comments below, and use the link in our bio to explore his impact on the High Line`s gardens!
📸: Lawrence Sumulong (@layer_nyc), Liz Ligon (@lizlig)
It’s been a fa-boo-lous weekend on the High Line! Yesterday, the Friends of the High Line team transformed the park into a spooky cityscape for High Line Halloween: Little Park of Horrors! 🎃 🌱
With a cardboard cityscape and an interactive Audrey II puppet as the backdrop, it was an exciting tribute to the plants that call the High Line home, the beloved musical @littleshopnyc (who even stopped by the park for a surprise performance), and New York City! We spent the day dancing with loved ones, playing games with our fellow New Yorkers, and even racing rat puppets! It was a remarkable way to celebrate this hauntingly fun time of year and the changing of the seasons.
Thank you to @littleshopnyc, @bicyclethirteen, @newvictorytheater, parkgoers, and all our Friends of the High Line staff who helped make this such a festive spooky season! Want to make sure that you’re one of the first to know about future events on the High Line? Use the link in our bio to sign up for email updates about upcoming happenings on the High Line!
It`s here—autumn has arrived in the High Line`s gardens! 🍂 💜 💛
While the Friends of the High Line team is still eagerly waiting for the park`s leaves to reach their peak vibrance, it`s been a thrill to watch the gardens begin their seasonal transformation. Currently, our horticulturists recommend keeping an eye on the gardens` fall blooms—such as our violet asters and golden swamp sunflowers. Not only do they add vibrant color to the landscape, but they also provide critical late-season pollen and nectar to native bees and other pollinators.
Keep your eyes peeled on our digital platforms for updates on the park`s evolving autumnal gardens, and use the link in our bio to visit our website to learn more about the seasonal standouts!
📸: Carlos Sanfer (@sanfer_carlos), Liz Ligon (@lizlig) , Andrew Frasz (@andrewfraszphoto), Timothy Schenck (@timothyschenck)
Don’t be spooked—the Audrey II on the High Line is a friend to all! We’re excited to give a sneak preview of Yung Oh Le Page (@bicyclethirteen)’s hand-created Audrey II, interactive rat puppets, and handmade subways that folks will find at this weekend’s High Line Halloween: Little Park of Horrors!
On Saturday, October 25, the Friends of the High Line team will be transforming the park into a Halloween-themed wonderland with an immersive cardboard cityscape, hands-on art activities, carnivorous plant puppets, and engaging games (including the chance to participate in our first-ever Rat Race—an interactive puppet competition for kids)! Although advance RSVP for this program is full, we’ll be welcoming walk-up visitors to join if the event is not at capacity. Use the link in our bio to stay up to date on events like this on the High Line.
We look forward to welcoming folks to the park for this exciting Halloween event. P.S. Registered attendees who arrive by 11:30am will have the chance to see a surprise performance!
🎃: High Line Halloween: Little Park of Horrors
📍: On the High Line at 14th St.
📅: Saturday, October 25/In the case of inclement weather, the event will be moved to October 26, 2025.
⏰: 11am—2pm
🎟️: Advance RSVP for this program is full. Walk-up visitors will be welcomed to join if the event is not at capacity.
What’s better than a walk in the park with a fellow New Yorker? Recently, Friends of the High Line Executive Director Alan van Capelle joined Council Member Erik Bottcher (@ErikBottcherCityCouncil) on the High Line to tour the park’s brand new staircase located at 18th Street and 10th Avenue to check out the features of this new entryway to New York’s park in the sky.
Nestled alongside the 18th Street Billboard, which is a canvas for commissioned artwork by High Line Art, the new stair not only makes the park more accessible to our neighbors but offers unique vantage points of the billboard art and the public plaza below. Designed by the same team as the High Line (Field Operations (@fieldoperations) (Project Lead), Diller Scofidio + Renfro (@diller_scofidio_renfro), and Piet Oudolf (@pietoudolf), the plaza is a great new addition to the neighborhood operated by @NYCParks.
Thanks to our continuing partnership with Council Member Bottcher and the City of New York, we’re able to continue to make the High Line safer and more accessible, with additional new staircases in progress. New York, we hope that you enjoy this new staircase, and if you see either of us in the neighborhood, park, or on this very staircase, we hope you say hello!
There is nothing like autumn in New York—especially when we have the privilege of welcoming to the park other professionals in horticulture and infrastructure reuse from across North America!
Last week, the High Line Network kicked off its 2025 Policy Lab: Rewilding the Built Environment, bringing together Network members from across public spaces that together annually serve 50 million visitors. Hosted by the Friends of the High Line team in partnership with the Bronx River Alliance (@bronx_river), this three-day convening explored the interconnection of urban ecology and infrastructure reuse. Over the course of the Policy Lab, we had a chance to conduct a deep dive into the design, programming, and stewardship practices that reconnect people, nature, and place. 🌿
It was a joy to host this one-of-a-kind convening of urban infrastructure reuse experts at our park in the sky—and to have the chance to explore our city`s beloved green spaces across our hometown of New York City. Thank you to Thomas Ranier (@thomasrainerdc) and Azzurra Cox for kicking off the event with their phenomenal insights, to our friends at the Bronx River Alliance (@bronx_river) and New York Botanical Garden (@nybg) for hosting site explorations, and to all our passionate attendees who shared such valuable learnings with our network.
The High Line Network team is unbelievably grateful to the staff, partners, supporters, and attendees who brought this energizing and engaging event to life (and even braved the High Line on a windy afternoon)! The Policy Lab was an incredible opportunity to gain first-hand insights into how we can transform our public spaces. The nearly 50 urban infrastructure reuse projects across North America—and the passionate community organizations and people making them possible—are such an incredible source of expertise and inspiration that we are grateful to be in community with.
Keep an eye on Friends of the High Line`s digital platforms as we share additional takeaways and resources from the Policy Lab, and use the link in our bio to learn more about how the High Line Network is transforming public spaces across North America.✨
📸: Liz Devine (@liz_devine)
NYC sophomores! Want to get paid to learn about plants and public art, meet other teens from around New York City, and spend time outdoors? Apply to be a part of the High Line Fellows: Emerging Leaders Program!
The High Line Fellows: Emerging Leaders Program is a three-year, paid youth development program (sophomore through senior year of high school) designed to support future leaders in Arts & Culture, Civic Engagement, Horticulture, and Park & Visitor Experience. It’s an incredible way to get hands-on professional development skills and build connections with other teens working in public spaces throughout the city.
We are looking for high school sophomores who either go to school or live in Chelsea, the Meatpacking District, or Hell’s Kitchen to apply. Applications are open through November 5, 2025. If you or someone you know would be a good fit for this job opportunity, use the link below and in our bio to start your application or DM this post to a future High Line Fellow!
✅ Starting Pay: $18/hour
📅 Application Deadline: November 5, 2025
💻 Application: Link in bio
