High Line (New York City)

High Line
The High Line, an aerial greenway, at 20th Street looking downtown; the vegetation was chosen to pay homage to the wild plants that had colonized the abandoned railway before it was repurposed
Map (2014)
Type	elevated urban linear park; public park
Location	Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates	40°44′54″N 74°0′18″W / 40.74833°N 74.00500°W / 40.74833; -74.00500
Area	A linear 1.45-mile (2.33 km) stretch of viaduct
Created	2009 (2009)
Operated by	New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
Visitors	5,000,000 (2014)
Status	Open
Public transit access	New York City Subway: 34th Street – Hudson Yards (  trains) at park's north end New York City Bus: M11, M12, M14A, M14D, M23, M34 SBS at various places
Website	www.thehighline.org

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The High Line (also known as the High Line Park) is a 1.45-mile-long (2.33 km) New York City linear park built in Manhattan on an elevated section of a disused New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line. Inspired by the 3-mile (4.8-kilometer) Promenade plantée (tree-lined walkway), a similar project in Paris completed in 1993, the High Line has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway and rails-to-trails park.

The High Line Park is built on the disused southern portion of the West Side Line running to the Lower West Side of Manhattan. It runs from Gansevoort Street – three blocks below 14th Street – in the Meatpacking District, through Chelsea, to the northern edge of the West Side Yard on 34th Street near the Javits Convention Center. An unopened spur extends above 30th Street to Tenth Avenue. Formerly, the West Side Line went as far south as a railroad terminal to Spring Street just north of Canal Street, however most of the lower section was demolished in 1960, with another small portion of the lower section being demolished in 1991.