A Rusty West Side Trestle has Architects Dreaming ; High Line Called Key to Area's Revival
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › July 16, 2004
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NEW YORK - Calling up such adjectives as "unruly beauty," "melancholy," "otherworldly," and "magical," four architectural design firms offered competing ideas Thursday for turning a rusty, long-abandoned railroad spur into a multipurpose public recreation space.
The High Line, an elevated trestle meandering 1 1/2 miles along Manhattan's West Side, was built more than 70 years ago to carry incoming rail freight to warehouses. Unused since 1980, it has become a sort of linear "wildscape," as one architect described it - its tracks and roadbed covered with urban debris, along with flowers, shrubs, and other plants tough enough to make it anywhere.See the full content of this document
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A Rusty West Side Trestle has Architects Dreaming ; High Line Called Key to Area's Revival
It is now seen as part of the transformation of a long-neglected swath of Manhattan. The 20-block stret...
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