{"id":62,"date":"2006-09-06T13:01:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T17:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/06\/manhattan%e2%80%99s-high-line-project-brings-renewal-to-the-lower-west-side\/"},"modified":"2012-10-26T14:48:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:48:23","slug":"manhattan-high-line-project-lower-west-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/06\/manhattan-high-line-project-lower-west-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan\u2019s High Line project brings renewal to the lower West Side."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image64\" style=\"height: 328px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/districtmap.jpg\" alt=\"High Line Project - District Map\" width=\"231\" height=\"328\" align=\"left\" \/>77 years ago, the New York Central Railroad constructed a nearly 2 mile stretch of elevated railroad tracks to shuttle freight up and down Manhattan\u2019s lower west side in <a title=\"Travel tips about Chelsea, NY\" href=\"\/blog\/category\/new-york\/new-york-travel-guide\/new-york-neighborhoods\/chelsea\/\">Chelsea<\/a>\/ Flatiron. This elevated line, spanning 22 city blocks, literally passed through 2 factory buildings as it wound its way uptown to end near 35th street. (The deaths of many pedestrians on the 19th century street-level tracks was one factor in the <strong>High Line\u2019s<\/strong> construction ) For decades, the High Line allowed factories and meatpackers on the lower west side to move manufactured goods, produce, and meat products without disruption to traffic below and without danger to pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>Unused since 1980, and partially demolished in the 1960\u2019s, this \u201cHigh Line\u201d will soon spring to life again. ( In 2001, Former Mayor Rudy Guiliani attempted\u2014and failed, to proceed with demolition of the High Line.)\u00a0 Friends of the High Line, a community-based non-profit organization, has spearheaded efforts to save this historic structure and launched the 2003 competition to choose creative solutions to convert the High Line for public use. 720 entires were received! This conversion will play a great role in the dynamic revitalization of the lower west side of Manhattan.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new High Line will not bring rail traffic, but will emerge as one of <a title=\"Travel Guide to New York\" href=\"\/blog\/category\/new-york\/\">New York<\/a>\u2019s most innovative and interesting urban renewal projects seen in decades. The design team of\u00a0 Diller Scofidio + Renfro is currently at work on the project. Four principles guide the design: \u201c<strong>Keep it Simple, Keep it Quiet, Keep it Wild, keep it Slow<\/strong>.\u201d<br \/>\nThe design encorporates an elevated promenade with various types of vegetation. The designers hope that High Line visitors will stroll slowly while contemplating their surroundings as they experience\u00a0 the notion that nature reclaims the man-made.<\/p>\n<p>Why not consider a <a title=\"Apartments for rent in Chelsea, NY\" href=\"\/new-york-apartment\/furnished\/manhattan\/chelsea\">Chelsea apartment rental<\/a> on the far west side near the High Line? To view design plans and support this exciting renovation, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehighline.org\/\">http:\/\/www.thehighline.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>77 years ago, the New York Central Railroad constructed a nearly 2 mile stretch of elevated railroad tracks to shuttle freight up and down Manhattan\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11871,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/11871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}