New York has a very successful ‘High Line’ park fashioned from an old railway line and now London might be getting its own version. Campaigners are hoping to transform a disused train track into the city’s first elevated green space. http://bbc.in/1tSmqpd
Looping between 30th and 34th streets around railway yards that stretch unceremoniously from Penn Station to the Hudson River, the third and final section of New York’s popular High Line opened in late September. This imaginative city park, following the route of an elevated freight railroad abandoned in 1980, has given a great deal of relaxed pleasure to millions of New Yorkers and visitors to Manhattan since the first section opened five years ago, while prompting a spate of property development revitalising a one-and-a-half mile corridor of Manhattan’s West side.
Next year, the Whitney Museum will reopen in a new building designed by Renzo Piano right by the High Line, while soon enough the Hudson Yards will be covered over as 16 new skyscrapers conceal the railway tracks and a whole new city quarter complete with five thousand new homes, schools, places of work and entertainment, markets and cafes comes to life. While the High Line cannot be given the entire credit for revitalising Manhattan’s Lower West Side, inspired city parks have long been agents for urban development as well as welcome breathing spaces between buildings and crowded streets.
The third and final section of New York's High Line opened in September (Iwan Bahn)
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