On the High Line : The Definitive Guide / Annik LaFarge ; foreword by Rick Darke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LaFarge, Annik, author.

Contributor:

Darke, Rick, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban parks--New York (State)--New York--Guidebooks.

Urban parks.

High Line (New York, N.Y. : Park)--Guidebooks.

High Line (New York, N.Y. : Park).

High Line (New York, N.Y. : Park)--History.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Guidebooks.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Guidebooks.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

Third, fully revised and updated edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Empire State Editions, [2024]

Summary:

The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and acclaimed guide to the High Line by the leading expert on the history of the park—now in a fully revised editionBuilt atop a former freight railroad, the “park in the sky” is regularly cited as one of the premiere examples of adaptive reuse and quickly became one of New York’s most popular destinations, attracting more than 8 million visitors a year. This updated Third Edition of On the High Line— published to coincide with the fifteenth anniversary of the park’s opening—remains the definitive guide to the park that transformed an entire neighborhood and became an inspiration to cities around the globe.In short entries organized by roughly two city block sections, the guide provides rich details about everything in view on both sides of the park. Illustrated with more than 110 black & white photographs, it covers historic and modern architecture; plants and horticulture; and important industries and technological innovations that developed in the neighborhoods the park traverses, from book publishing and food distribution to the introduction of cold storage and the development of radar, the elevator, and talking movies. Updated to include newly opened sections of the park, this edition also features a new conversation pertaining to the more controversial side of the High Line’s story and how it became a poster child for the most grievous manifestations of gentrification and inequity in public spaces. Author Annik LaFarge provides a frank discussion on how the park’s leadership created a platform for discussing these issues and for advising other projects on how to work more inclusively and from a social justice and equity perspective.On the High Line serves as an educated travel companion, someone invisibly perched on a visitor’s shoulder who can answer every question, including what was here before, moving back in time through the early 20th century, the Industrial Revolution, and the colonial and pre-European times when this stretch of what we call Manhattan was home to the Lenape people and much of it was covered by the waters of the Hudson River. A companion website with more than 650 photos—historic, contemporary, rooftop and aerial—can be viewed at HighLineBook.com.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introducing the High Line

New Preface to the Third Edition

Prologue: The Story of the High Line, from Elevated Railroad to Linear Park

Foreword by Rick Darke

Joel Sternfeld

Designing the High Line

Piet Oudolf and the Plants of the High Line

Section One: Gansevoort-14th Street

The Slow Stairs

Friends of the High Line

Gansevoort Woodland

Mannahatta Then and Now

The Manhattan Refrigerating Company

Washington Grasslands

Wildlife on the High Line

Whitney Museum

Gansevoort Pumping Station

Pier 52 and Day's End

Thirteenth Avenue and Gansevoort Peninsula

Pier 54 and Little Island

The Meatpacking District

14th Street Passage

P. F. Collier &amp

Son

The Louche Hotels

Section Two: 14th-16th Streets

The Bog

Piers and Pile Fields

Pier 57

The Sundeck

Hoboken Terminal

Chelsea Market

The Northern and Southern Spurs

Merchants Refrigerating Company Warehouse

Piet Oudolf's Favorites

The Spring Cutback

Other High Lines

Section Three: 16th-20th Streets

Death Avenue Amphitheater

The West Side Cowboy

Tenth Avenue Square

Chelsea Grasslands

New Architecture along the High Line, Part One

Tenement Houses

High Line Art

Astilbe, Allium 'Mt. Everest', Staghorn Sumac

The Chelsea Piers

Grasses

Publishing and Printing

Breaking the Grid

Clement Clarke Moore-a.k.a. Seal-Park

Guardian Angel Church

Holly on the High Line

Section Four: 20th-23rd Streets

West Chelsea

The Chelsea Thicket

General Theological Seminary

The Art Deco Prison

The Life Savers Building

The Warehouse Law

Center of Amusements

The Spears Building and Seating Steps

The Prairie Lawn

The Chelsea Hotel

The Empire Diner

The Gallery and Art Scene.

London Terrace Apartments

The Original People's Park

Section Five: 23rd-26th Streets

The Slow Park

New Architecture along the High Line, Part Two

The Flyover

Tree of Heaven: From Beloved to Bemoaned

From Global Grocer to World School

H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Co.

Magnolias

The Modern Luxury Cruise

The Great Spires

Water Towers

Heavy Metal in West Chelsea

Otis Elevator Company

Pharmacy in the Sky

The Lighterage Era

Section Six: 26th-30th Streets

The Wildflower Field

The High Line Zeitgeist

Peter Obletz

New York's Lumberyard

The Radial Bench

Make the Place Sittable

30th Street Cut-Out

The Central Stores Complex

The Morgan General Mail Facility and Abraham Lincoln

Section Seven: The Interim Walkway The Crossroads

The Crossroads

The Eastern Rail Yards and the Rail Track Walk

Keep It Wild: The Interim Walkway

The Divine Wild Carrot

Hell's Kitchen

The Javits Center Green Roof

34th Street Entry Plaza and CSX Transportation Gate

Section Eight: 30th-34th Streets

The Shed

Hudson Yards

Tenth Avenue Spur

Westyard Distribution Center

The Moynihan Connector

The Time Line

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: LaFarge, Annik On the High Line

ISBN:

9781531506131