The revitalization (or gentrification) of the Meatpacking District, which found fashion models and 24-hour party people neighboring with meat wholesalers of the Far West Side, was another impetus to the project. The former freight railroad, inactive since 1980, went through a number of revitalization plans, including one that would have placed light rail on it, before it was redesigned as a high-concept public park with money raised in great part by donations to the friends of the High Line organization. (It provides context, and got me out on a gorgoeous day.) I’ve already chronicled the opening of the lower section, between Gansevoort Street and West 20th, in June 2009 - but couldn’t resist walking the entire route this time. ![]() The city does hope to open that remaining section during the coming decade. ![]() New York City opened up a second section of its only major rail to trails project, the former West Side Freight Railroad (popularly called the High Line) in June 2011 from West 20th to West 30th Street, leaving only a short section from West 30th to West 34th undeveloped.
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