Highline Park Walking Tour – Observations And Significance

Observations during the Highline Park Walking Tour

High Line is an excellent world having woodlands, fairies and meadows. The High line Park runs from Hudson Yards to Chelsea. The Highline is floating 30 feet above the ground level. High Line has a mile long lane which allows the viewer to visit galleries and museums and experience the New York City (Wolch et al.). The experience of High Line is park is truly magical. High Line is slightly elevated but it is not too high from the city. It also has elevated railways. The lane goes parallel to the river which adds on some extra magic to High Line Park. The High Line Park has layout of geometric patterns for all the bridges and street it has.

High Line Park has various meandering paths and turns. It has variant overlooks from which people are able to visit the whole beauty of the city. At 14^th street, the High Line is split into two sides on which the 1^st elevator goes to a water feature which is at the lower side and upper elevator has a sundeck. The 15^th street has a food hall known as the Chelsea Market. There is also a National Biscuit Company which is I the 16^th street of High Line Park. On the 17^th street, there is an amphitheater where the High Line Park crosses over the Tenth Avenue southwest to the northwest of the city (Wonil et al.). There is a lawn in the 23^rd street and there is a ramp between 25^th street and 26^th street that takes the visitors above viaduct, with a scenic beauty that faces the 26^th street (James et al.). The High Line Park merges to Tenth Avenue Spur which is stretched over the 30^th street. There is also a play area which consists of seesaws, three trackways where the visitors can walk over the railways, benches and many more. At the 34^th street the High Line Park bends east which ends at street level midway. The buildings that is visible from High Line Park are The Whitney Museum at Gansevoort Street, The Former Manhattan Refrigerating Co. Warehouse at Gansevoort Street, The Standard Hotel at 848 Washington Street, DVF Headquarters, The Liberty Inn, The Hoboken Terminal, Merchant Refrigerating Building, The Kitchen at 512 W. 19th Street, The Maritime Hotel, The IAC Building, The Chelsea Nouvel, The Metal Shutter Houses, The Metal Shutter Houses, Baker & Williams Warehouse, The Spears Building, London Terrace Apartments, R.C. Williams Warehouse, Former Tinfoil Factory, The Starrett-Lehigh Building.

The railway track of High Line Park reaches all the industries of New York City carrying goods to them. The railway that passes over the High Line Park also carries meat for the Meatpacking Industry from which the meats are transferred to all over the city. The track lines of railways in High Line Park have elevated benches all around the park which gives an elegant look in around the whole area.

There are many commercials and residential buildings that are viewed from the path of High Line Park. There are factories, art galleries, museums and other residential buildings that are along the path of the High Line. These are an excellent piece of architecture enhancing the beauty of the city.

Proximity of the Highline to the city and river

There are over thousand and thousand of plants that are built by the plant developers in High Line Park. The number of plans, shrubs, vines, grasses, perennials are endless and countless. There are different types of flower in High Line Park that are of different colors. In the summer, the High Line Park is full of greeneries and different colors enhance the beauty of the park. In winter, the park shows different shades of brown as all plants die in that season. But at that time too, the High Line Park has no less colors. The whole area is covered with brown shades. The planting is done to provide a greenery to all its viewers in the heart of the city.

The High Line Park mainly lies in West Chelsea district of New York City which had enhanced the development of the city regarding the buildings nearby. New commercials buildings and residential buildings are being developed along the High Line. Total of about 1374 new buildings are built along the High Line area in Chelsea district (Millington and Nate). Out of all the new housing units, 132 units are commercial units of about 500,000 square feet and other 33 housings were gallery projects and art galleries which provided new economic development for High Line Park.

There are a number of factories in the line of High Line Park and a meat manufacturing factories. The scenic beauty of the High Line Park lies in walking all the way along the path of the High Line Park. There are number factories starting from food items and bakeries. In meat manufacturing industry, loads of meat are bought in the manufacturing units and are then cut and send to all the cities of New York.

The Chelsea market is the famous market along the High Line Park. There are many shops, art galleries, restaurants and many other shops in the Chelsea market. There are restaurants as Zadig & Voltaire in the Chelsea market. Cookshop, Izakaya Ten, Trestle on Tenth, Sleep No More and many other are shops in the Chelsea Market. There are near about 300 art galleries along the High Line Park. Whitney Museum of American Art is one of the art galleries in High Line Park.

The Whitney building is one of the famous architecture of New York City. It is that architecture that all of them are famous of and is considered as one of the best piece of architecture in this world (Lang, Steven and Julia Rothenberg). The architect of Whitney museum is Renzo Piano which has 50,000 square feet of indoor galleries in the museum. The museum has 13,000 square feet outdoor exhibition terraces and space that faces the High Line Park. This architecture gives an elegance look to the city of New York.

References

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