Highline Walk

The High Line is a 1-mile (1.6 km) New York City linear park built on a 1.45-mile (2.33 km)section of the former elevated New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line, which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan; it has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway. The High Line Park currently runs from Gansevoort Street, three blocks below West 14th Street, in the Meatpacking District, up to 30th Street, through the neighborhood of Chelsea to the West Side Yard, near the Javits Convention Center. I walked the extent of the Highline at different times of day, from South to North, recording the natural, human, and mechanical sounds that characterize this unique place.