Annik LaFarge

On the High Line (eBook, ePUB)

The Definitive Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and acclaimed guide to the High Line by the leading expert on the history of the park-now in a fully revised editionBuilt atop a former freight railroad, the park in the sky is regularly cited as one of the premiere examples of adaptive reuse and quickly became one of New York s most popular destinations, attracting more than 8 million visitors a year. This updated Third Edition of On the High Line published to coincide with the fifteenth anniversary of the park s opening remains the definitive guide to the park that transformed an entire neighborhood and became an inspiration to cities around the globe.In short entries organized by roughly two city block sections, the guide provides rich details about everything in view on both sides of the park. Illustrated with more than 110 black & white photographs, it covers historic and modern architecture; plants and horticulture; and important industries and technological innovations that developed in the neighborhoods the park traverses, from book publishing and food distribution to the introduction of cold storage and the development of radar, the elevator, and talking movies. Updated to include newly opened sections of the park, this edition also features a new conversation pertaining to the more controversial side of the High Line s story and how it became a poster child for the most grievous manifestations of gentrification and inequity in public spaces. Author Annik LaFarge provides a frank discussion on how the park s leadership created a platform for discussing these issues and for advising other projects on how to work more inclusively and from a social justice and equity perspective.On the High Line serves as an educated travel companion, someone invisibly perched on a visitor s shoulder who can answer every question, including what was here before, moving back in time through the early 20th century, the Industrial Revolution, and the colonial and pre-European times when this stretch of what we call Manhattan was home to the Lenape people and much of it was covered by the waters of the Hudson River. A companion website with more than 650 photos historic, contemporary, rooftop and aerial can be viewed at HighLineBook.com.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781531506124
• Artikelnr.: 72417771

Autorenporträt

Annik LaFarge (Author) Annik LaFarge has been writing about the High Line since 2009, beginning with the blog LivinTheHighLine.com, selected by the Columbia University Libraries Web Resources Collection Program for inclusion in the Avery Library Historic Preservation and Urban Planning web archive. LaFarge is a Trustee and Chair for the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and author of Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions.

Inhaltsangabe

Introducing the High Line New Preface to the Third Edition xiii Prologue: The Story of the High Line, from Elevated Railroad to Linear Park xxii Foreword by Rick Darke xxxiv Joel Sternfeld xxxix Designing the High Line xli Piet Oudolf and the Plants of the High Line xlvi Section One: Gansevoort-14th Street The Slow Stairs, 5
Friends of the High Line, 6
Gansevoort Woodland, 9
Mannahatta Then and Now, 11
The Manhattan Refrigerating Company, 12
Washington Grasslands, 13
Wildlife on the High Line, 14
Whitney Museum , 15
Gansevoort Pumping Station, 18
Pier 52 and Day's End, 19
Thirteenth Avenue and Gansevoort Peninsula, 20
Pier 54 and Little Island, 24
The Meatpacking District, 27
14th Street Passage, 29
P. F. Collier & Son, 30
The Louche Hotels, 31 Section Two: 14th-16th Streets The Bog, 37
Piers and Pile Fields, 38
Pier 57, 39
The Sundeck, 40
Hoboken Terminal, 40
Chelsea Market, 41
The Northern and Southern Spurs, 44
Merchants Refrigerating Company Warehouse, 46
Piet Oudolf's Favorites, 46
The Spring Cutback, 48
Other High Lines, 50 Section Three: 16th-20th Streets Death Avenue Amphitheater, 59
The West Side Cowboy, 59
Tenth Avenue Square, 62
Chelsea Grasslands, 63
New Architecture along the High Line, Part One, 64
Tenement Houses, 68
High Line Art, 70
Astilbe, Allium 'Mt. Everest', Staghorn Sumac, 70
The Chelsea Piers, 71
Grasses, 73
Publishing and Printing, 75
Breaking the Grid, 75
Clement Clarke Moore-a.k.a. Seal-Park , 76
Guardian Angel Church, 77
Holly on the High Line, 78 Section Four: 20th-23rd Streets West Chelsea, 81
The Chelsea Thicket, 82
General Theological Seminary, 82
The Art Deco Prison, 83
The Life Savers Building, 84
The Warehouse Law, 85
Center of Amusements, 86
The Spears Building and Seating Steps, 87
The Prairie Lawn, 88
The Chelsea Hotel, 90
The Empire Diner, 91
The Gallery and Art Scene, 92
London Terrace Apartments, 94
The Original People's Park, 95 Section Five: 23rd-26th Streets The Slow Park, 99
New Architecture along the High Line, Part Two, 99
The Flyover, 102
Tree of Heaven: From Beloved to Bemoaned, 103
From Global Grocer to World School, 104
H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Co., 105
Magnolias, 106
The Modern Luxury Cruise, 107
The Great Spires, 108
Water Towers, 110
Heavy Metal in West Chelsea, 111
Otis Elevator Company, 112
Pharmacy in the Sky, 114
The Lighterage Era, 114 Section Six: 26th-30th Streets The Wildflower Field, 121
The High Line Zeitgeist, 121
Peter Obletz, 123
New York's Lumberyard, 124
The Radial Bench, 124
"Make the Place Sittable", 125
30th Street Cut- Out, 126
The Central Stores Complex, 126
The Morgan General Mail Facility and Abraham Lincoln, 128 Section Seven: The Interim Walkway The Crossroads, 135
The Eastern Rail Yards and the Rail Track Walk, 135
Keep It Wild: The Interim Walkway, 137
The Divine Wild Carrot, 139
Hell's Kitchen, 140
The Javits Center Green Roof, 141
34th Street Entry Plaza and CSX Transportation Gate, 142 Section Eight: 30th-34th Streets The Shed, 147
Hudson Yards, 147
Tenth Avenue Spur, 148
Westyard Distribution Center, 150
The Moynihan Connector, 151
The Time Line, 154 Acknowledgments 157 Notes 161 Bibliography 175 Index 179