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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: New York's New High Line Park [Watch (HLS stream): New York's New High Line Park](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/O6IFSxq9.m3u8) (4:44)  _Published 2009-07-11. The elevated 1930s railroad track in New York City has been transformed into an innovative and contemporary public park_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:11 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [What to Know About New York’s Plan to Offer Free College](/video/qeq6ZjMx/) ### What to Know About New York’s Plan to Offer Free College [Who Put Giant Roses on New York's Park Avenue?](/video/yUvga7Gp/) ### Who Put Giant Roses on New York's Park Avenue? [The New York Mets' Nostalgic New Park](/video/CByMSMsu/) ### The New York Mets' Nostalgic New Park --- ## Transcript >> Hi, I'm Richard Lacayo. I'm the Art and Architecture Critic of TIME magazine. And I'm here today at the High Line Park in Lower Manhattan, with one of the designer, Ric Scofidio. His firm, Diller + Scofidio Renfro, helped to design this very unique park in a disused railway bed, along with James Corner of Field Operations, a landscape architectural firm. And today, Ric is gonna give us a tour through this incredible, unusual and very, very successful new park. >> Ric, the park was conceived, in a way, as a series of episodes, visually and almost sometimes emotionally? >> I tend to think of it myself-- I tend to think of it like a musical composition; that there's one theme that is continuous. The planking system, [ unk ], the way the feathers into a grass, the way you can move and walk through that as it starts with establishing a theme and then it plays as the theme and it changes like the plants as it moves into different areas. >> The High Line Park is situated in the track bed of what was once an elevated railway line. It ran down the west side of Manhattan to transport freight to the factories and warehouses that line to that part of town. The railway tracks originally ran at street level, but that turned out to be dangerous for pedestrians and drivers. So in 1934, the city transferred them to an elevated bed, about 30 feet about street level. But the gradual disappearance of small manufacturing in Manhattan meant less business for the railway over the years. And in 1980 it made its last run. Grasses, wild flowers, and small trees sprouted in the soil that the rail wires were embedded in. The whole thing became an urban ruin. For a long time, everyone assumed that the moribund High Line tracks would be torn down. But in 1999, two local residents, Joshua David and Robert Hammond, formed an organization called " Friends of the High Line ", in the hope that it could be preserved and put to some public purpose. Eventually, they got the city of New York to sign on to the idea. Although no one was entirely sure yet what the idea was. It started to take more concrete form in 2003, when an open design competition attracted hundreds of proposals. Construction began in April 2006, and the first half- mile stretch of the park opened to the public in June of this year. >> It's a park that really celebrates this city. And people up here will walk twenty blocks, and-- which they would never do 30 feet below us. You might walk one or two blocks, but that's [ unk ]. Up here people stroll. The pace of, and I guess the blood pressure of New York angst drops down. And I think one of the keys to that is just the flight of stairs, which brings you slowly up, brings you onto the structure, lets you appreciate this kind of wild construction. And then you emerge into the landscape. >> The park was constructed by removing the railroad tracks and completely digging out the bed. Then cleaning and reinforcing it, before laying down a concrete base. Then soil was filled back in and long stretches of the tracks, re- laid precisely where they had been before. I like the fact that the designers of the High Line understand that street life in New York is a spectator sport. It's a characteristic of reason work by builders Scafidio and Renfro to include a bleachers- style seating element with each new building. But the grandstand at the High Line is the best one yet. It looks down Tenth Avenue through a glass wall that turns the view into something like a wide- screen movie; with traffic and pedestrians supplying the action. One of the things I admire the most about the High Line is that it's taking an old piece of New York infrastructure and brilliantly repurposed it without turning it into an exercising nostalgia. The High Line Park hasn't merely preserved the old railway line; it's brought it back to life as a fully- functioning and completely contemporary part of the city. >> Well Ric, after working on this project for almost four years, how does it feel to see people actually using it now? >> Well, it's amazing when something first opens, all I can see are the problems and things that we call the punch list. But the contractor still has a repair. But the few times now that I've been up here, particularly in the evening I just kind of slow down, take my own blood pressure down. It's really wonderful to watch the people. I don't look at the park, I look at the people and that gives me kind of a great insight that we've really accomplished something that's important for the city. And I do think it's a new kind of park. I don't think there's anything like this, any place else in the world. 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