Re: (rshsdepot) High Line - New York City

[luckyshow_@_mindspring.com]

there is still a 30 or more foot long section that was removed north of 23rd, what about it?

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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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