Midsummer On The High Line, New York's Park In The Sky

Summer is always a good time to visit the High Line, an elevated linear park built on a section of the former New York Central Railroad which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan. The High Line Park currently runs from Gansevoort Street, three blocks below West 14th Street, in the Meatpacking District, up to 30th Street, through the neighborhood of Chelsea to the West Side Yard, near the Javits Convention Center. The repurposed railway has become a very popular urban park in the city. For more information about the park, visit their website.

Seen From The High Line

A painter on a fire escape platform

Empire State Building

High Line Zoo art by Betten

High Line Zoo art by Betten

"Urban theater" overlooking 10th Avenue

Meatpacking District

14th Street

Charles Mary Kubricht's "Alive-ness: Proposal for Adaptation". The artist painted disruptive patterns over surface of large storage containers, echoing the maritime camouflage technique of using contrasting stripes to make it difficult to determine which direction the ship's bow is pointing.

The High Line, Manhattan's repurposed railway offers park visitors interesting views of architecture, art installation, street scenes, skyline and the  surrounding neighborhoods, in addition to the blooming wildflowers and exposed tracks. These are some of the images made last week from the High Line, the increasingly popular elevated railway that was transformed into an aerial linear park.