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Now five years old , New York City ’s High Lineseems implant in the public consciousness and is successful beyond anyone ’s expectation . It ’s a primary tourist destination swash five million visitors each year , but it is also a public park . The final division of the park ( incision 3 ) latterly opened to the public in belated September . The newly - opened section is a welcoming , gathering plaza , and a festivity of the industrial past and futurity of the Hudson River . Design ingredient bind the newest department to the two ; but the river vistas , series of all-embracing plazas , and the long " undesigned " and " lowbrowed " helping of track in this Modern subdivision conjure up a different form of emotional power .
Depending on which introduction is chosen , work plantings give way to angry distance or vise versa .
A picnic workbench and new gathering places in Section 3 .
Walking through section 1 and 2 is akin to waking through a tremendous hugger-mugger garden among a canon of buildings . And if you traverse the bridge over 30th Street , Section 3 open up to broad views ( of the Hudson Rail Yards and the Hudson River ) , wholesale curves , and plazas . The empty outer space above the rail yards is uncommon in Manhattan and will morph and modify in the next few years as glass towers are work up above them .
survive tracks have been filled with amalgamate gravel enable them to become nerve tract adjacent to the gravel planting beds .
James Corner Field Operations’overall design features are augment with rail - line pathways , an inventive playground , and novel article of furniture that underscores the situation ’s old use . Piet Oudolf’splanting design becomes less lavish as you take the air along , ultimately leave off at a wholesale section of racecourse that is intentionally left wild . The exist caterpillar track become garden borderline ; cultivated in some area and uncultivated in others — as they were when the rarified railroad was an abandoned souvenir . This transition slowly abide by the park downhill , ending at 34th Street and the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center . Art installations have been a regular and cyclic part of the High Line , and Section 3 is no different . The inaugural pieces by Adrián Villar Rojas , entitledThe Evolution of God , at first appear so roughhewn that they could be industrial relic — until sneakers , bones , and plants appear .
The inaugural art installation by Adrián Villar Rojas keep up the curved shape of the track and ends in a broad plaza near 34th Street .
The High Line has something to teach all garden makers , specially those with long , narrow distance . This becomes especially light when you come in the Mungo Park from the end of division 3 at the thirty-fourth Street entrance . The trajectory and experience is different . Building on the wild places , it step by step germinate from a somewhat arrant path edge on one side by " abandoned " tracks into a highly plan space that build in crescendo through the lush gardens of Sections 1 and 2 to Gansevoort Street . The front - to - back , back - to - front High Line experience is also something gardener can learn from . face at a aim problem from all sides and create a destination — either one that respect its descent or celebrates what it has become ( or both ) . Make it a garden for people , instead of a cute space only to be looked at . Creating a garden has always been a process of manipulating human experience , and the completed High Line does that in a mode that has exceeded every expectation .
The Pershing Square Beams is a subterranean yet aery , exploratory sport area that is enwrap and leave for free frolic . It has a rubber floor and a pop - up lookout that comes up through the adjacent garden .
