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- Subject: (rshsdepot) High Line - New York City
- From: I95BERNIEW_@_aol.com
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:10:32 EST
From Crain's New York Business.
Bernie Wagenblast
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City acquires ownership of High Line
by _Catherine Tymkiw_ (mailto:ctymkiw_@_crain.com?subject=City acquires
ownership of High Line)
November 16, 2005
The city acquired the title to the High Line from CSX Transportation Inc.,
paving the way for the abandoned elevated railway on Manhattan’s West Side to
be transformed into a landscaped public space next year.
In addition, the city and CSX signed a Trail Use Agreement, permitting the
rail structure to be used as a walking trail. The first section of the High
Line is slated to open to the public in 2008. Construction will be carried out
in two phases, with the first commencing next year.
“The transfer of ownership of the High Line from CSX to the City marks
another important milestone in our efforts to create a one-of-a-kind public space
for all New Yorkers,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a statement.
The High Line’s open space will run from Gansevoort Street in the
Meatpacking District through West Chelsea to the Hudson Yards.
Nonprofit Friends of the High Line have been lobbying since 1999 for the
High Line to be turned into a public open space and the Bloomberg Administration
came on board with its endorsement of the project in 2002.
“We’re especially grateful to Mayor Bloomberg and his Administration for
their vision and unstinting work to move the project forward. They took a
structure that has been mired in legal disputes for nearly 20 years and turned it
around, bringing it to the start of construction in just three short years,”
said FHL co-founder Robert Hammond in a statement.
The project has received $84.75 million funding commitments from federal,
state and local government agencies and authorities. In June, the West Chelsea
neighborhood around the High Line was rezoned to support the creation of
public space and to allow for new residential and commercial development.
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railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
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