The High Line is an elevated park on a former railway line on Manhattan's West Side. James Corner Field Operations led the landscape design, Diller Scofidio + Renfro did the architecture, and Piet Oudolf designed the gardens. The City of New York owns it after buying it from CSX in November 2005. Construction began on April 10, 2006. The first section opened on June 8, 2009, and later sections opened in 2011 and 2014. The article describes naturalistic, meadow-like planting.
The park runs 1.45 miles (2.33 km), with walkways of pebble-dash concrete and Brazilian Ipê benches. Friends of the High Line, a nonprofit, maintains it.
About 8 million people visited in 2019. It won the 2017 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design. It is open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. in warmer months.
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