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High Line Expands, Gets Close To Home
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Jen Carlson
Published Jun 14, 2010
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Are you so over the High Line? Well get ready for Phase Two to finally take shape—this will extend the park to a full mile in length, and is expected to open next spring. Work has already begun, and according to the NY Post "the most over-the-top feature begins at 25th Street... on a Woodland Flyover that will lift park-goers 15 feet above the old rail trestle through a stand of magnolia trees." Yes, you will be able to walk through a canopy of trees. Gamechanger!
Other features include seating steps, more flowers, and a hillside lawn. While the first section has the Standard Hotel looking over it, Curbed notes that apartment windows are within arms length of the new section! But if your #1 complaint in life is that your terrace is touching the High Line...
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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