The Spur

The Spur was once the High Line section most in danger of demolition. Thanks to a group of committed citizens and community leaders, we celebrated its opening on June 5, 2019.

James Corner Field Operations (Project Lead), Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and planting designer Piet Oudolf—the same design team behind the first three sections of the park—listened to what visitors wanted when choosing the features for the Spur. That means: more space for public programming, more restrooms, more access points, more food, more art, and more plants.

The Plinth

The Plinth is the first space on the High Line—and one of the only sites in New York City—dedicated solely to a rotating series of new, monumental, contemporary art commissions. The Plinth is located on the Spur, where a large open space offers sweeping views of the city. Artworks selected for the Plinth will thus become part of the cityscape itself.

Brick House

For the inaugural High Line Plinth, Simone Leigh presents Brick House, a 16-foot-tall bronze bust of a Black woman whose torso conflates the forms of a skirt and a clay house. Leigh’s magnificent Black female figure challenges visitors to think more immediately about the architecture around them, and how it reflects customs, values, priorities, and society as a whole.

We Are Here

Commissioned for the opening of the Spur, We Are Here presented a series of text-based sound installations that spanned several locations of the High Line. Claudia Rankine wrote the text with Garnette Cadogan, Helga Davis, and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, with sound by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste.

We Are Here celebrated what it means to be in relation to time, with all its pleasures of serendipity, and all the change, destruction, and renewal that accompanies the construction of modernity.