On the High Line : exploring America's most original urban park / by Annik La Farge ; preface, additional text, and photographs, Rick Darke ; principal photography, Scott Mlyn, Juan Valentin ; art direction and design, Lorraine Ferguson
- Author:
- LaFarge, Annik
- Published:
- New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2014.
- Edition:
- This rev. and updated edition.
- Physical Description:
- 226 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Darke, Rick, Mlyn, Scott, and Valentin, Juan (Photographer)
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: GANSEVOORT--14TH STREETS -- The Slow Stairs -- The Meatpacking District -- Gansevoort Street -- Thirteenth Avenue and Pier 52 -- Gansevoort Woodland -- Washington Grasslands -- Smokebush, Toadlily, and Friends -- The Standard Hotel -- Whitney Museum on the High Line -- Metal Canopies and Belgian Block -- Manhattan Refrigerating Company -- P. F. Collier & Son Building -- Pier 54 -- DVF Studio -- 14th Street Passage -- The Wild High Line -- Joel Sternfeld -- The Plants of the High Line -- High Line Lights -- 14TH--16TH STREETS -- The Bog -- Piers and Pile Fields -- The Pier Trick -- Pier 57 -- The Sun Deck -- Hoboken Terminal -- The Liberty Inn -- Chelsea Market -- Wildlife on the High Line -- High Line Food -- The Southern Spur -- Astor Farmland -- Merchants Refrigerating Building -- The Northern Spur -- The River That Flows Both Ways -- The Low Road -- The Last Tenth Avenue Cowboy -- 16TH--20TH STREETS -- "Death Avenue" Amphitheater -- The Cutback -- Tenth Avenue Square -- Acer Triflorum - Maple Trees -- Architecture on the High Line -- Tenement Houses -- A Train's-Eye View -- High Line Art -- Vestiges of the Old Railroad -- The Chelsea Piers -- Architectural and Design Elements -- Grasses / Rick Darke -- Publishing and Printing -- Breaking the Grid -- Designing the High Line -- Chelsea Grasslands -- The Art Deco Prison -- The Life Savers Building -- General Theological Seminary -- Piet Oudolf's Favorites -- Astilbe, Allium Mt. Everest, Staghorn Sumac -- Ugly and Beautiful -- 20TH-23RD STREETS -- The High Line, Part Two -- Chelsea Thicket -- Lost Graffiti of the High Line -- Museum Mile-and-a-Half -- The Gallery Scene -- The Kitchen -- Dia: Chelsea -- Printed Matter -- Holly on the High Line -- Church of the Guardian Angel -- HL23 -- Spears Building and Seating Steps -- The Lawn -- The Chelsea Hotel -- The Empire Diner -- The Warehouse Law -- Center of Amusements -- Mannahatta Then and Now -- London Terrace Apartments -- Other High Lines / Rick Darke -- 23RD--26TH STREETS -- The Slow Park -- Tree of Heaven: From Beloved to Bemoaned -- The Flyover -- R. C. Williams Building -- Schools of the Future -- H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company -- Water Towers -- Windows on Windows -- A Park Outside My Window -- Billboard -- The Modern Luxury Cruise -- Otis Elevator Company -- Magnolias -- West Chelsea -- The Great Spires -- The High Line Zeitgeist -- Heavy Metal in West Chelsea -- Pharmacy in the Sky -- The Terminal Warehouse Buildings -- Railroad Barge at Pier 66A -- 26TH--30TH STREETS -- Wildflower Field -- Peter Obletz -- New York's Lumberyard -- Radial Bench -- The Original People's Park -- Wildness: Past, Present, Future / Rick Darke -- The Central Stores Complex -- The Mail Trains -- 30th Street Cut-Out -- Hell's Kitchen -- 30TH--34TH STREETS -- The High Line, Part Three -- Hudson Yards -- Keep It Wild: The Interim Walkway -- Westyard Distribution Center -- Tenth Avenue Spur -- The Divine Wild Carrot -- Friends of the High Line -- The Time Line / Rick Darke.
- Summary:
- On the High Line, first published in 2012, is an engaging guide to everything a visitor sees when strolling through the park: the innovative gardens and their thousands of native and exotic plant species; the architecture, both old and new, industrial and residential; and a neighborhood whose colorful history includes the birth of the railroad, the Manhattan Project, S & M clubs, and the legendary Tenth Avenue Cowboy. In 2014, the final half-mile section of the park will open, and visitors will encounter a very different High Line experience: stunning vistas of the Hudson River; a birds-eye view of the trains in the working Hudson Rail Yards; and the original, self-sown landscape that emerged in the abandoned rail bed and inspired the High Line's early champions. Striking new views of the city will be opened throughout. The updated edition includes sixteen new pages devoted to the final section of the park, with original photography, design renderings, and a new essay by Rick Darke. The book has also been updated throughout to reflect dozens of changes in the neighborhood since first publication.
- Subject(s):
- Urban parks—New York (State)—New York—Guidebooks
- Urban parks
- Stadtpark
- New York (N.Y.)—History
- High Line (New York, N.Y. : Park)—Guidebooks
- New York (State)—New York
- New York (State)—New York—High Line (Park)
- New York (State)—New York—Manhattan
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)—Guidebooks
- High Line
- New York, NY.
- New York (N.Y.)—Guidebooks
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780500291412 (pbk.)
0500291411 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-222) and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the John S. B. and Bernice M. Bamford Libraries Endowment; 2015
- Endowment Note:
- John S. B. and Bernice M. Bamford Libraries Endowment
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