Hightail it to the Highline
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How a redundant rail line became a public park in New York.
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How a redundant rail line became a public park in New York.
“If you are in New York, you have to see the Highline!” advised a friend. So I took the subway to the appropriate station, stepped out in the winter sun and walked for a couple of blocks to arrive at one end of the Highline. ‘Block’ is the New York way of saying from one traffic crossing to another. ‘Highline’, as one would expect in New York, was not some HIGH multi-storeyed building, but the name given to a RAIL line that once serviced the meat district of New York.