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High Line Park
New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Project Facts
- The High Line Park runs more than 20 blocks from Gansevoort to 20th street. The second phase running from 20th street to 30th street will launch in 2010.
- The High Line is essentially a green roof on top of an elevated railroad track. There are multiple layers within the “living roof,” including a porous drainage layer, gravel, filter fabric, subsoil, and topsoil.
- Materials used in the High Line were selected based on life-cycle costs. Special concrete designed to last long was used to reduce the waste caused by later replacements.
- Parts of the High Line use recirculated water. Plans are underway to harvest rainwater from the roofs of nearby buildings.
- Native, drought-resistant plant species were tailored to the High Line’s micro-climates.
- Friends of the High Line will employ youths aged 16-21 as part of its “Youth Corps” program. Additionally, the High Line Schools program now offers curriculum guides, which were co-developed with the New York City Laboratory School for Collaborative Studies, for grades two through seven. Class visits to the High Line are also part of the educational program.
Links
- The High Line Park
- The High Line Blog
- “Elevated” (New York Magazine, June 7, 2009)
- “High Line’s Secret Garden Grows Where Cows Took Their Last Journey” (Bloomberg News, June 9, 2009)
- “New York’s High Line Park in the Sky Opens” (Inhabitat, June 9, 2009)
- On High, A Fresh Outlook (NY Times, June 9, 2009)
- “On the High Line At Last” (Metropolis Magazine, June 9, 2009)
- “Up in the Park” (New York Review of Books, August 13, 2009)