I first came across The High Line a while back over at Bobby’s and then it cropped up again today in a nice feature in The Guardian. It’s a long-derelict stretch of New York’s old elevated railway line that had been slated for destruction but which now, thanks to the actions of a group of citizens who believed in its potential, is being transformed into a ribbon of parkland snaking its way through the Meatpacking District and West Chelsea.

Here’s a video telling the history of the line:

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