Absolutely amazing. High Line Park in the Lower West Side in Manhattan was opened by Mayor Bloomberg, Diane von Furstenberg, and others. It is 30 feet (10 meters) above street level and is a converted old West Side Line railway viaduct.
This is the latest in the grand tradition of "brownfield park development" in New York. New York was pretty unique in the world in 1853 when 700 acres of populated land was acquired for what become Central park. (Interestingly, Central Park was decrepit when Mayor Laguardia was elected in 1934 and gave Robert Moses the job of cleaning it up which he did using funds from President Roosevelt's New Deal as well as private donations.)
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