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The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long (2.33 km) elevated linear park, greenway, and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The High Line's design is a collaboration between James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Piet Oudolf.
The High Line Canal is not the only one so named. Others in Colorado include the Farmer's High Line (which flows from Golden passing through Westminster and Thornton); the Government High Line (which irrigates Grand Junction and the surrounding Grand Valley); and the Rocky Ford High Line (which irrigates land in the Arkansas River Valley around Boone, Fowler, Manzanola, and Rocky Ford).
The High Line passes through the 10th Avenue side of the building. Chelsea Market was constructed in the 1890s and was originally the site of the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) factory complex where the Oreo cookie was invented and produced. The complex was redeveloped in the 1990s and features a retail concourse at ground level with office ...
This article provides a list of operational and under construction (or approved) high-speed rail networks, listed by country or region. While the International Union of Railways defines high-speed rail as public transport by rail at speeds of at least 200 km/h (124 mph) for upgraded tracks and 250 km/h (155 mph) or faster for new tracks, this article lists all the systems and lines that ...
The West Side Line was last used for freight in 1982 and then converted to passenger use as Amtrak's Empire Connection in 1991, with the portion south of Penn Station abandoned and later converted into the High Line, an elevated pedestrian park.
Hi-Line (Montana), an area of northern Montana named for the railway; Hi-Line Railroad Bridge, a historic bridge on the railway located over the Sheyenne River in North Dakota; West Philadelphia Elevated, also known as the West Philadelphia High Line, a section of the Harrisburg Subdivision railroad line in Pennsylvania
The Line Fire in Southern California has set over 20,500 acres ablaze and is 0% contained.. The wildfire was discovered Thursday, according to InciWeb's data. It's located in San Bernardino County ...
The first phase of the High Line, a similar park on an old railway viaduct in the West Side of Manhattan in New York City, was completed in 2009. [6] The second phase was completed in 2011, bringing the total length of the High Line to 1.6 kilometres (1 mi); [7] the third phase opened in September 2014, completing the park. [8]