It was such a simple idea, but it was so creative. I have lived in Big Apple for 15 years in 80's and passed by that place from time to time. It was so depressed, I just don't know how the city going to do with it. Now, there comes High Line Park. A miracle. It should be cited as 7 miracles of our modern age. Solute to the two young creators for what they brought to the city. They are our role model and our hero. They have turned a trash into a golden mine.
I live right off of the High Line! It is truly a wonderful getaway right in Manhattan. Chicago has a similar scaled down version called the 606 trail that I would also recommend.
I just watch this video again and again. It cheers me up every time. Although it is not as magnificent as Central Park , but in term of turning around the city, I think it is far more significant. Only Cheonggycheon in Seoul can ride in parallel with High Line Park of New York for the achievement.
Watching this in 2017. I live a block from thi . I am so glad I took advantage of Highline early, it was a dream. But now there is sooo much traffic on the Highline, I avoid it like the plague. The area is so dreadful that my blood-pressure goes up. I'll be glad when the trendiness dies down.
I walked it twice and it is such a great idea to green up that area.If this was done in Toronto greedy developers would have bulldozed the area and put up 90 storey condos from one end to the other.
"No plan. No money. No relevant experience." That is all Robert Hammond and Joshua David started with in 1999, when they decided that the abandoned High Line railroad in New York had to be saved. These two heroes have created an unbelievable success. However, Hammond claimed that the success of High Line Park can be attributed to his lack of a concrete plan. Interesting enough.
I live on a tiny rainforest covered island on the west coast of Canada; seeing something of this nature and magnitude done in the city of New York is incredibly inspiring. I love it. :) Ron. ( ;-} >
put the cap on the CBE ! cross bronx expressway . use new land from cap project to build affordable housing. put a cap on RR tracks, north park ave line - bronx, 132 st -190 st. use land for affordable housing. build on the long island sound " A florida keys style overseas highway " . this will relieve the CBE
The High Line is TERRIFIC!! One of the best uses of urban renewal I have ever seen. The city should sell it more. I found that European visitors knew more about it than visitors from this country. It should be one of the PRIME attractions.
Actually, that's not a solar panel thing, it's a lighted indicator to let you know that there's a fire alarm pull box nearby (usually on one of the corners of that intersection).
The size of Cheonggycheon construction project is probably much much bigger than High Line Park. If you take a look of old picture of Cheonggycheon after Korean War, then you can see how bad that place was. It was a cancer of Seoul. High Line Park is probably more creative, it turns an abandon high rise railway into an fascinating park for people to walk and hang around. I love and admire both projects for what they bring to the people.
Well you can't it's a walk Park not a skateboard park you can go down to Chelsea Piers to the skateboard park because if I see you on a skateboard I'll have you ticketed.
Seriously? Because some other schmoe just said they should have more greenery. Depending on which phase as there were three depending on which one you're in dictates whether it's wide open or narrow.
When I still lived at home in Rye New York and commuted to Grand Central terminal I was a member of The Saint. I live on 22nd and 10th Avenue back then there were the original leather bars the eagle and the spike. My block then decadent dangerous and deserted is now all art galleries and we did things up on The High Line before it was the high line that would curl your toes. While it is a welcome addition to the area if I find you walking a dog that is in the service dog or you're smoking a cigarette up there I'm going to get you ticketed and I don't care if nothing is growing there you are compacting the soil do not walk into the bushes it is a public park funded privately and this is my home if you can't respect it then you shouldn't be here.
As a Chelsea Manhattan resident who lives on 22nd and 10th filming crews are a natural site here in the area. And keep the filming crews off The High Line.
It was an elevated railway that stopped working in 1980 called The High Line. That's where the name comes from perhaps you should stick to finding Waldo.
You forgot to mention a highly important fact: The naturally landscaped gardens by Piet Oudolf which create the atmospherewww.thehighline.org/blog/tagged/piet-oudolf
Are you freaking kidding me? It would be dangerous to say the least what a ridiculous idea I live here and we used to do things up there that I wouldn't mention in public. The whole point was to get rid of the trains it went into disrepair in 1980 that's the point.
thats not a ketchup bottle, its a solar panel thing that takes light from the sun and converts it into energy for use of the light post in the night. thats what it is. take it from a new yorker ;)
Those solar panels are for the call boxes not the lighting take it from somebody who commuted to Grand Central on a 30-year period and now is the Chelsea Manhattan resident.
@@carolv8450 No. Actually it's a public park funded privately. You don't know what you're talking about I live in Chelsea I contribute to The High Line.
Well here's a news flash for you none of our parks in New York City charge for anyone to be in them it's a public park this particular public park is funded privately.
No street lamps? Does the park close as soon as the sun starts to go down? That's a shame. I used to love taking an early evening stroll in the park after work where I used to live. But its not very fun when its hard to see where you're going.
Street lamps what do you think this is a New York Street this is a park there are flood lights you can see plenty of where you're going I live here and you don't know what you're talking about. Plus depending on the season is when it opens and closes.
@@SicilianStealth you never heard of street lights before? every city in the modern world has something called street lights that usually lights up after dark so people can see where they are going at night. do you live in a third world country? then maybe its a "luxury" you can only dream of.
As a railroad fan, I am disgusted that they would essentially put tracks back into the line and surround it again with vegetation, just as it was when the line was abandoned. ABANDONED. Absolutely NOTHING ever looks truly good if it looks like it's abandoned, and railroads are no exception under ANY circumstances whatsoever. At the very least, they should either have spaces of laid track that are devoid of vegetation and and are surrounded only by ballast or concrete or have no track at all and only vegetation arround the planned walkway. Not both, please. It looks truly awful that way.
Wow. Actually the tracks are part of The High Line it was an elevated railway that's the point dumbass. And those tracks where they are never moved they stayed there. They built the park around the tracks I live here I know.
This seems like a cool place, but I don't understand the point. Why have a park on a railroad line? Who would want to use this place? It seems like walking around is a very limited kind of activity.
The point is is to add more greenery and space it was a unused rail mine since 1980 and went into disrepair it has brought tourism. Who would want to use it ask all those people walking up there now maybe if you actually went and knew what you were talking about you wouldn't come off as a dunsel. Because it extends from 34th Street all the way down to Gansevoort. Phase one has kiosks and places to eat and there's accessible to Chelsea Market.
A great accomplishment, but the consequence is that real estate interests built on both sides of the tracks and the experience is similar to walking down a dark noisy tunnel or narrow back alley. Now, the arty verbiage by the Times reporter and architect is understood now to be just a bunch of bs.
It's nothing special, just a walkway with high grass and some bushes on the side. If you walk 1 block, you've seen it all, it was pretty underwhelming ...
While the novelty has worn off we did things up there before it was the high line that would curl your toes we're better off with it than without it as there are plenty of things to do up there you just don't know what you're talking about now go remind your parents why you should have been aborted.
Mind blowing and inspiring. This is the type of design that makes a great city. I hope to see more of it.
People hate walking far distances, but with the High Line, they love it.
The High Line was a great place to walk. I was there over the weekend and enjoyed it very much.
Creat something useful and pleasant is the most satisfactory accomplishment.
High Line Park is the one.
I agree. This is a really very special place! Genious!
i visited about a week or two after it opened. Its aweome and innovative. Another must see spot in New York :).
what a FANTASTIC city
definitely one of my favorite if not favorite moments of my trip to nyc last week!! loved it.
It was such a simple idea, but it was so creative.
I have lived in Big Apple for 15 years in 80's and passed by that place from time to time. It was so depressed, I just don't know how the city going to do with it.
Now, there comes High Line Park. A miracle. It should be cited as 7 miracles of our modern age.
Solute to the two young creators for what they brought to the city. They are our role model and our hero. They have turned a trash into a golden mine.
Brilliant. Well done NY.
Chicago has one of these.
I live right off of the High Line! It is truly a wonderful getaway right in Manhattan. Chicago has a similar scaled down version called the 606 trail that I would also recommend.
Same here. I'm 22&10.
Walked the Highline--it was a fabulous!
wow,it's amazing what can be done when we put our minds to it!!!
I just watch this video again and again.
It cheers me up every time.
Although it is not as magnificent as Central Park , but in term of turning around the city, I think it is far more significant.
Only Cheonggycheon in Seoul can ride in parallel with High Line Park of New York for the achievement.
every urban space should be like this
what a fantastic idea, will most certainly walk this next year!!
Beautiful Video!!! Loved It
thats just about the coolest thing i've ever seen
watching this for school purpose but I think it's actualy great
that is a really good idea it's such a good use of the space!!
As of September 21, 2014 the High Line now extends to 34th St. between 11th & 12th Ave. Pretty good... pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.
What you are referring to is phase 3.
Fantastico. Otimo uso para um espaço antes perdido !!
Awesome 👍
New Yorkers: "Look!! grasssssssss oO"
We have plenty of it all over the place. Oh look another dumb comment from a farm rodent.
FANTASTICO ... !!!
What a fantastic video
Watching this in 2017. I live a block from thi . I am so glad I took advantage of Highline early, it was a dream. But now there is sooo much traffic on the Highline, I avoid it like the plague. The area is so dreadful that my blood-pressure goes up. I'll be glad when the trendiness dies down.
I'm with you. I'm on 22 and 10.
perfect for skating!!
No dumbass it's not a skating park it's a walking park where do you think you're going to skate with all those people walking.
Fantastic!!!!!
NYC is fucking awesome!
In Madrid we did the same with the M30 beltway called Madrid Rio, with parks, fountains and bike lanes, a pharaonic work but very successful
Going to new york in july. I'll totally check this place out.
I walked it twice and it is such a great idea to green up that area.If this was done in Toronto greedy developers would have bulldozed the area and put up 90 storey condos from one end to the other.
Cool!!! very very dinamic..!
this really is beautiful
"No plan. No money. No relevant experience." That is all Robert Hammond and Joshua David started with in 1999, when they decided that the abandoned High Line railroad in New York had to be saved.
These two heroes have created an unbelievable success.
However, Hammond claimed that the success of High Line Park can be attributed to his lack of a concrete plan.
Interesting enough.
The Lenox lounge, Paradise Garage building Langston Hughes house. Nobody tried to save them. And that is rich NYC history
Lenox Lounge and Paradise Garage were private entities.
Should we also have embalmed Larry? Propped up Colonel Abrams in the corner?
Actually Toots, I was a member of The Saint.
To think at one time trains ran over this elevated structure. Nice to see it converted into a rail trail
And the last thing transported on that railway was frozen turkeys.
Funny how someone has gotten a ketchup bottle on top of the street lamp at 3:05 :D anyway that park is amazing!
3:36 Who else caught Mister Softee 😂🍦
We should do this to the crumbling Gardiner expressway in Toronto
I live on a tiny rainforest covered island on the west coast of Canada; seeing something of this nature and magnitude done in the city of New York is incredibly inspiring. I love it. :)
Ron.
( ;-} >
put the cap on the CBE ! cross bronx expressway .
use new land from cap project to build affordable housing.
put a cap on RR tracks, north park ave line - bronx, 132 st -190 st.
use land for affordable housing.
build on the long island sound " A florida keys style
overseas highway " . this will relieve the CBE
BRAVO
Un français ???!!!!
The High Line is TERRIFIC!! One of the best uses of urban renewal I have ever seen. The city should sell it more. I found that European visitors knew more about it than visitors from this country. It should be one of the PRIME attractions.
Oh wow
Pretty damn awesome - would like to see this in #Dresden (Pieschen, Mickten, Neustadt)
Lets be honest, the genius is in the idea and the location, not the way the bushes are arranged
Accept the bush's aren't arranged they are the natural plant life that grew on The High Line before it became a park.
Actually, that's not a solar panel thing, it's a lighted indicator to let you know that there's a fire alarm pull box nearby (usually on one of the corners of that intersection).
Thanks,Great video and idea---NYC's High Line Park.Mmmmmmmm
The size of Cheonggycheon construction project is probably much much bigger than High Line Park.
If you take a look of old picture of Cheonggycheon after Korean War, then you can see how bad that place was. It was a cancer of Seoul.
High Line Park is probably more creative, it turns an abandon high rise railway into an fascinating park for people to walk and hang around.
I love and admire both projects for what they bring to the people.
somebody could tell me how much the admission price is to get in there ??
thanks in advance
free
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NY
It is free.
There is no admission fee as it is a "city-owned" PARK.
Welcome to NYC, we have been waiting for you !!.
There is ZERO admission to access the park. It's a public Park.... owned and managed by the people who live in NYC.
It's a public park funded privately all our parks believe it or not in the five boroughs are free. This isn't great adventure.
i wanna skateboard this sooooo bad
Well you can't it's a walk Park not a skateboard park you can go down to Chelsea Piers to the skateboard park because if I see you on a skateboard I'll have you ticketed.
FREE !
looks great, but I would have expected more greenery and less hard surface on it.
That greenery is natural are you freaking kidding me it was an elevated railway.
Who else Is wathing this because It has something to do with your homework
Please cite clearly: the main designer of High Line Park is landscape architect James Corner
I heard about India installing elevated pedestrian walkways, I think that is the future.
There is elevator access at 14th street, 17th street, 23rd Street and 30th Street there you go.
Any updates about the park in 2023?
great renovation!......if only the walkways were wider though
Seriously? Because some other schmoe just said they should have more greenery. Depending on which phase as there were three depending on which one you're in dictates whether it's wide open or narrow.
I'm walking the whole thing first thing I do next time I go to NYC.
Nothing like it. Except The Promenade Plantée.
So far I've seen two movies that have shot scenes on the highline. What Maizie Knew and Side Effects.
When I still lived at home in Rye New York and commuted to Grand Central terminal I was a member of The Saint. I live on 22nd and 10th Avenue back then there were the original leather bars the eagle and the spike. My block then decadent dangerous and deserted is now all art galleries and we did things up on The High Line before it was the high line that would curl your toes. While it is a welcome addition to the area if I find you walking a dog that is in the service dog or you're smoking a cigarette up there I'm going to get you ticketed and I don't care if nothing is growing there you are compacting the soil do not walk into the bushes it is a public park funded privately and this is my home if you can't respect it then you shouldn't be here.
If I were making a movie, I would shoot a scene up there.
As a Chelsea Manhattan resident who lives on 22nd and 10th filming crews are a natural site here in the area. And keep the filming crews off The High Line.
*Attention, Time magazine fact checkers: The architect's name, Ricardo Scofidio, is misspelled in the description.*
Nice park you got here... but where are the highlines??
It was an elevated railway that stopped working in 1980 called The High Line. That's where the name comes from perhaps you should stick to finding Waldo.
You forgot to mention a highly important fact: The naturally landscaped gardens by Piet Oudolf which create the atmospherewww.thehighline.org/blog/tagged/piet-oudolf
How cool would it be if they managed to integrate a railroad that still worked into the park and you could ride the train down the park?
Are you freaking kidding me? It would be dangerous to say the least what a ridiculous idea I live here and we used to do things up there that I wouldn't mention in public. The whole point was to get rid of the trains it went into disrepair in 1980 that's the point.
@moonpagan Rainforest................ Canada??
thats not a ketchup bottle, its a solar panel thing that takes light from the sun and converts it into energy for use of the light post in the night. thats what it is. take it from a new yorker ;)
Those solar panels are for the call boxes not the lighting take it from somebody who commuted to Grand Central on a 30-year period and now is the Chelsea Manhattan resident.
Oh I see.
I suppose you didn't know that you allowed an ad that supports the ecological destruction on Rosia Montana. I just watched it.
@rozwell46 so you wanna skateboard in plants?
why did time hire a low talker to do its video narration
How can you base jump off it? Its not high enough.
I'll push you and then we can find out.
Amazing the city doesn't charge patrons a fee to walk that elevated high line getting back what was dished out to build it.
Maybe taxes pay for it. It must need to b watered .
@@carolv8450 No. Actually it's a public park funded privately. You don't know what you're talking about I live in Chelsea I contribute to The High Line.
Well here's a news flash for you none of our parks in New York City charge for anyone to be in them it's a public park this particular public park is funded privately.
Thought those two guys were Vin Diesel and Paul Walker.
Fix the audio
Clean your ears.
@gillmore718 i believe they did install restrooms
See our snapshots of new features of the High Line in our new set on flickr.com/photos/nycedc/sets/72157625388607185
Only for the middle class to use I suspect soon. There will be social cleansing in the 'slums' that the high line runs through.
FANTASTIK ! BRAVO NYC !
As of Chelsea Manhattan resident The High Line doesn't run through any slums.
No street lamps? Does the park close as soon as the sun starts to go down? That's a shame. I used to love taking an early evening stroll in the park after work where I used to live. But its not very fun when its hard to see where you're going.
Street lamps what do you think this is a New York Street this is a park there are flood lights you can see plenty of where you're going I live here and you don't know what you're talking about.
Plus depending on the season is when it opens and closes.
@@SicilianStealth you never heard of street lights before? every city in the modern world has something called street lights that usually lights up after dark so people can see where they are going at night. do you live in a third world country? then maybe its a "luxury" you can only dream of.
As a railroad fan, I am disgusted that they would essentially put tracks back into the line and surround it again with vegetation, just as it was when the line was abandoned. ABANDONED. Absolutely NOTHING ever looks truly good if it looks like it's abandoned, and railroads are no exception under ANY circumstances whatsoever. At the very least, they should either have spaces of laid track that are devoid of vegetation and and are surrounded only by ballast or concrete or have no track at all and only vegetation arround the planned walkway. Not both, please. It looks truly awful that way.
Wow. Actually the tracks are part of The High Line it was an elevated railway that's the point dumbass. And those tracks where they are never moved they stayed there. They built the park around the tracks I live here I know.
@rozwell46 thinkin the same as me
This seems like a cool place, but I don't understand the point. Why have a park on a railroad line? Who would want to use this place? It seems like walking around is a very limited kind of activity.
Nate Mickelson what?
The point is is to add more greenery and space it was a unused rail mine since 1980 and went into disrepair it has brought tourism. Who would want to use it ask all those people walking up there now maybe if you actually went and knew what you were talking about you wouldn't come off as a dunsel.
Because it extends from 34th Street all the way down to Gansevoort. Phase one has kiosks and places to eat and there's accessible to Chelsea Market.
A great accomplishment, but the consequence is that real estate interests built on both sides of the tracks and the experience is similar to walking down a dark noisy tunnel or narrow back alley. Now, the arty verbiage by the Times reporter and architect is understood now to be just a bunch of bs.
There are elevators to get up there so the disabled do have access.
its good but it needs some vending machines and turn part of it into a flea market
Disgusting comment. This is Manhattan not Walmart. The Flea Market is on 30th Street.
Why?
Why the hell not it was a disused in disrepair elevated railway since 1980 I love it and I live here don't like it don't go.
That would be great. Restore it back to what it was built for originally instead of a linear park for yuppies that the disabled have no access to.
it looks like they havent cut the grass in ages
Because it went into disrepair in 1980 this picture was taken before it became The High Line are you really that stupid?
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The Highline is so overrated.
You're just not getting laid.
andrew likes his friends girls smfh
SMD!! Hiding Behind a youtube channel!!!
U get no likes bitch
It's nothing special, just a walkway with high grass and some bushes on the side.
If you walk 1 block, you've seen it all, it was pretty underwhelming ...
While the novelty has worn off we did things up there before it was the high line that would curl your toes we're better off with it than without it as there are plenty of things to do up there you just don't know what you're talking about now go remind your parents why you should have been aborted.