O High Linelinear park New Yorkis one of those projects that residents of São Paulo always dreamed of doing Minhocão.
Opened in 2009, the park was built on top of a deactivated railway line. The High Line is 2.5 km long and passes through three neighborhoods in New York.
HIGH LINE EM NOVA YORK
HISTORY
For almost 50 years, the High Line was used to transport goods. Until in 1980, with the advancement of highways, the last train left there, curiously full of frozen turkeys, according to the association website Friends of The High Line. At this time, some people wanted the railway line to be demolished, but an activist went to court to stop it.
In 1999, some residents of the region founded the group “Amigos do High Line”who wanted the area to be revitalized and used as a public space.
Until in 2002, a study revealed that the project was economically viable and a competition for ideas and suggestions for what to do with the place. In 2004, the teams that would put the project into practice were selected.
The following year, the High Line property was donated by CSX Transportation to the City of New York and in 2009 the first part of the park was opened to the public.
THE PARK
The High Line, which is 8 meters high, has a beautiful garden, as well as benches and walkways and practically serves as an open-air museum, as at each step a new work appears among New York’s buildings. In fact, the Brazilian graffiti Cobra It is one of the highlights of the region.
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ADDRESS
The park runs from Gansevoort Street in Meatpacking to West 34th Street between 10th and 12th Avenues.
SCHEDULES
December to March: 7am – 7pm
Abril a Mayo: 7h – 22h
June to September: 7am – 11pm
Outubro a novembro: 7h – 22h
ACCESS
Subway
L A C E para 14th Street e 8th Avenue
CE to 23rd Street and 8th Avenue
1 2 3 para 14th Street e 7th Avenue
1 para 18th Street e 7th Avenue
1 para 23rd Street & 7th Avenue
A C E 1 2 3 para 34 St Penn Station
7 para 34th Street – Hudson Yards
Adolfo Nomelini
Journalist graduated from PUC-SP and postgraduate in Communication in Digital Media, he is passionate about music, coxinha, television, his glasses and the internet. He has worked with online content for more than 15 years and spends much of his time “throwing his body out into the world, walking everywhere and, according to the natural law of encounters, leaving and receiving something.”
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