The High Line was originally constructed in the 1930s, to lift dangerous freight trains off Manhattan’s streets. 
The High Line is designed by landscape designers James Corner Field Operations and architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Photographs are by Iwan Baan. Inspired by the melancholic, unruly beauty of this postindustrial ruin, where nature has reclaimed a once vital piece of urban infrastructure, the new park interprets its inheritance. It translates the biodiversity that took root after it fell into ruin in a string of site-specific urban micro climates along the stretch of railway that include sunny, shady, wet, dry, windy, and sheltered spaces. The park accommodates the wild, the cultivated, the intimate, and the social.
