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1847 - The City of New York authorizes street level railroad tracks down Manhattan’s West Site.
January - July 2003 - An open ideas com-petition, "Designing the High Line," solicits proposals for the High Line's reuse. 720 teams from 36 countries enter. Hundreds of design entries are displayed at Grand Central Terminal.
March - September 2004 Friends of the High Line and the City of New York conduct a process to select a design team for the High Line. The selected team is James Corner Field Operations, a landscape architecture firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, an architecture firm, and experts in horticulture, engineer-ing, security, maintenance, public art, and other disciplines.
April 2006 - Groundbreaking is celebrated on the High Line with the lifting of a rail track. The first phase of construction on Section 1 of the High Line begins.
2008 - Landscape Construction begins on Section 1, with construction and installation of pathways, access points, seating, lighting, and planting.
June 2008 - Final designs are released for the High Line's transformation to a public park.
June 2009 - Section 1 (Gansevoort Street to 20th Street) opens to the public.
2011 (Projected) - Section 2 (20th Street to 30th Street) opens to the public.
1851 - 1929 - So many accidents occur between freight trains and street level traffic that 10th Avenue becomes known as Death Avenue. For safety, men on horses, called the West Side Cowboys, ride in front of trains waving red flags.
1929 - After years of public debate about the hazard, the City and State of New York and the New York Central Railroad agree on the West Side Improvement Project, which includes the High Line. The entire project is 13 miles long, eliminates 105 street-level railroad crossings, and adds 32 acres to Riverside Park. It costs over $150 million in 1930 dollars—more than $2 billion today.
1934 - The High Line opens to trains. It runs from 34th Street to St. John’s Park Terminal, at Spring Street. It is designed to go through the center of blocks, rather than over the avenue, to avoid creating the negative conditions associated with elevated subways. It connects directly to factories and warehouses, allowing trains to roll right inside buildings. Milk, meat, produce, and raw and manufactured goods come and go without causing street-level traffic.
1950s - Growth of interstate trucking leads to a drop in rail traffic, nationally and on the High Line.
source - http://www.thehighline.org/about/high-line-history
1980 - The last train runs on the High Line pulling three carloads of frozen turkeys.
1999 - Friends of the High Line is founded by Joshua David and Robert Hammond, residents of the High Line neighborhood, to advo-cate for the High Line's preservation and reuse as public open space.
October 2002 - A study done by Friends of the High Line finds that the High Line project is economically rational: New tax revenues created by the public space will be greater than the costs of construction.18
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the reuse of the High Line as an origi-nal 1.5-mile-long public open space * Identify design solutions to the challenge of providing plentiful access to the High Line's elevated platform, including: 1. universal, or A.D.A.-compliant, access facilities; 2. access systems integrated into existing and/or future construction surrounding the High Line * Conceive an innovative plan for the environment to be experienced by a visitor to the High Line's elevated platform-an environment that might include (but is not limited to) landscaping/plantings, art-related uses, and recreational amenities
the spaces beneath the High Line, including street and sidewalk crossings (which are publicly controlled), and underlying private lots and buildings (controlled by individual property owners)
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* Zaha Hadid Architects with Balmori Associates, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, and studio MDA * Steven Holl Architects with Hargreaves Associates and HNTB * TerraGRAM: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates with D.I.R.T. Studio and Beyer Blinder Belle
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The Woodland Flyover is a segment of Section II in the Highline. The objective of this amenity is to bring the user up eight feet into the canopy of the landscape. The Woodland Flyover extends from 24th street to 27th street and is complete with several sitting areas, one access point by stair (26th St.), and the Viewing Spur. The viewing Spur is located over 26th street and acts as a faux-billboard of pedestrians and viewports, it is to commemorate the past advertisements that were a part of the pre-Highline.
Images: http://ny.curbed.com/tags/woodland-�yover
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Gansevoort Woodlands - Predominantly birch and serviceberry trees. Features a series of raised, steel planters and vines that wrap the High Line railing visible from the street.
Washington Grasslands - Features wild grasses and shade-friendly perennials grow among choke-cheery, sassafras, and witch hazel.
Diller- Von Furstenberg Sundeck - Features large-scale outdoor furniture along the old rail track and is surrounded by grasses, perennials, and shrubs along with a water feature. Raised, steel plant-ers house a mix of wetland plants. On the lower level are wild�owers, grasses, and sumac trees.
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Chelsea Grasslands - Here a mix of meadow grasses and perennials create variety in color and texture throughout the year. They are densely planted and interspersed between native species.
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0 100' 200' 1/4 MILE400' 800'
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