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Tuesday 09th March, 2010
image JOEL STERNFELD FROM 'WALKING THE HIGHLINE' Joel Sternfeld, Looking East on 30th Street on a Morning in May, 2000 (from Walking the Highline) C-print 39 7/16 X 49 7/8 inches (100.17 X 126.68 cm). The High Line was originally constructed in the 1930s, to lift dangerous freight trains off Manhattan's streets. Section 1 of the High Line is open as a public park, owned by the City of New York and operated under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Friends of the High Line is the conservancy charged with raising private funds for the park and overseeing its maintenance and operations, pursuant to an agreement with the Parks Department. When all sections are complete, the High Line will be a mile-and-a-half-long elevated park, running through the West Side neighborhoods of the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea and Clinton/Hell's Kitchen. The High Line is located on Manhattan's West Side. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to 34th Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues. Section 1 of the High Line, which opened to the public on June 9, 2009, runs from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street. When photographer Joel Sternfeld published the first edition of Walking the High Line in 2001, his beautiful, melancholy images brought the public in contact with the High Line's otherworldly self-seeded landscape for the first time. This stunning collection of High Line landscape photographs, by a true American landscape master, was instrumental in gaining support for the preservation of the High Line. For more information on the High Line itself have a look at www.thehighline.org. Direct link
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