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Now five years old , New York City ’s High Lineseems embedded in the public consciousness and is successful beyond anyone ’s expectation . It ’s a primary tourist destination boasting five million visitor each year , but it is also a public commons . The net section of the parking area ( Section 3 ) recently opened to the public in later September . The new - opened section is a welcoming , gathering place , and a celebration of the industrial past tense and future of the Hudson River . Design constituent connect the newest surgical incision to the two ; but the river vista , serial of broad plazas , and the long " undesigned " and " uncultivated " lot of track in this new section educe a different kind of excited power .
calculate on which entry is chosen , cultivate planting give way to wild spaces or vise versa .
A pushover bench and new assemblage places in Section 3 .
Walking through section 1 and 2 is consanguineous to arouse through a wonderful hole-and-corner garden among a canyon of buildings . And if you traverse the nosepiece over 30th Street , Section 3 opens up to broad views ( of the Hudson Rail Yards and the Hudson River ) , sweeping curves , and plazas . The empty place above the rails G is rare in Manhattan and will morph and commute in the next few year as glass towers are built above them .
subsist path have been filled with amalgamated crushed rock enabling them to become footpath contiguous to the crushed rock planting beds .
James Corner Field Operations’overall design features are augmented with rail - line pathways , an imaginative vacation spot , and newfangled article of furniture that emphasize the site ’s previous usance . Piet Oudolf’splanting design becomes less lush as you take the air along , ultimately leave alone off at a wholesale section of track that is intentionally left uncivilised . The existing tracks become garden borders ; crop in some areas and uncultivated in others — as they were when the elevated railway line was an abandon token . This transition slowly keep abreast the commons downhill , ending at thirty-fourth Street and the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center . artistry installations have been a even 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 seem so roughhewn that they could be industrial relics — until sneakers , bones , and plants seem .
The inaugural art installation by Adrián Villar Rojas follow the curve of the tracks and terminate in a broad shopping center near 34th Street .
The High Line has something to teach all garden makers , specially those with long , narrow spaces . This becomes peculiarly clear when you enter the parking area from the remnant of part 3 at the 34th Street entree . The flight and experience is unlike . Building on the untamed places , it gradually evolves from a middling stark path bordered on one side by " abandoned " course into a highly designed space that builds 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 gardeners can learn from . Look at a design job from all sides and create a destination — either one that honors its origins or celebrates what it has become ( or both ) . Make it a garden for people , instead of a precious infinite only to be look at . create a garden has always been a physical process of control human experience , and the completed High Line does that in a path that has surpass every first moment .
The Pershing Square Beams is a ulterior yet windy , explorative play domain that is enclosed and allows for spare play . It has a rubber floor and a pop - up picket that comes up through the adjacent garden .
