What is the High Line in New York City? I'm going to show you in this video! This is Lisa
with Swifty Travels and this is part of my series on New York City we finally made it as a family to
New York City one of the places on my bucket list! We started the series exploring Times Square and
Central Park. In my last episode we walked around st mark's place in the east village
and washington square park and now after lunch we're wandering over to the west side of manhattan
to check out the high line. We're on our way to the highline and we found another little pop-up
market here in the meatpacking district so we're going to take a look here. This particular market
was selling fresh flowers it was beautiful but it was quite crowded and so we continued on our way
and then what is this huge crowd here from what I could see from my short standpoint looks like
there are some drag queens over here -possibly posing for pictures I bet they were famous
What is the high line? well, the high line is a public park that was built
on a historic freight line elevated above the streets on manhattan's west
side. It was saved from demolition and opened as a hybrid public space in 2009.
What's different about this park is the highline is basically an elevated greenway
walkway and has several displays of public art that traverses the west side of manhattan for
about one and a half miles. The first challenge was figuring out how to get up on the high line
we didn't realize that there were only certain points where you can enter
you should plan on starting at either end and walking the entire length
we're trying to get up on high street it looks like there's a QR code where you have
to check in and actually get a reservation for a particular time even though it's free
so just keep that in mind when you come here
We had to wait about 20 to 30 minutes after we checked in
all these people were waiting for their turn don't be fooled there's not really a line
just hang near the front and when they open the gates just walk on in and show your code
now currently the hours are 7am to 9pm on weekdays 9 a.m to 9 00
pm on weekends they are currently requesting mask wearing while you walk on the high line
it's a beautiful elevated garden it used to be an old train line up here if they'd converted
this area is where you can see views of the hudson river
and there's just one area that serves food and drink and that's this here
this was really interesting it was like a little seating area where
you could sit and you could watch the traffic over the road below
and oh my goodness what is this if you watch my other episodes you know i have a thing
for running on two marriage proposals they've got the candles they've got the roses and what is this
that looks like the box somebody is going to propose too bad we couldn't stay to
watch somebody is ready to make a proposal and we're just gonna miss it there's the camera crew
in the mid-1800s street level tracks delivered food to lower manhattan in this area but by 1910
540 people had been killed by the trains in this area 10th avenue was renamed death avenue in 1924
the transit commission ordered the removal of the street crossings they were just too dangerous and
plans were made to elevate the trains in 1933 the first train ran on the high line and cut
directly through buildings for easy access for food delivery such as this old nabisco building
this is really really cool and have you ever seen a parking garage like this
i have never have in the 60s and 70s the rail youth started to decline as
there was a rise in trucking and by the 1980s it was ready for demolition
after decades of neglect and indecision it was rezoned as a public park and a team of designers
and architects transformed the high line the first section was open to the public in 2009
this is absolutely beautiful for the nature lovers who are visiting new york city you can
get away and go and walk for several miles without having to stop at all the lights
here's how they play little sports in new york city you have these little sports fields tucked
away in the neighborhoods they were playing soccer but it looks like they've all moved
beautiful views at all the intersections of all the old buildings and the historic
red brick buildings against the green plants that are planted up here just absolutely gorgeous
everywhere you turn here the architecture is so stunning there is the coolest building behind us
i don't know what it is but it's really cool and i hear someone singing opera
if you start walking the high line from the south like we did
start on the south end and walk north you will end at the vessel what a lovely way to end your walk
i don't know what this really is it's an art installation i've seen it on the internet
i've seen it in instagram i guess it's just i'm guessing it's an art installation you can walk up
maybe get some good views and good pictures certainly it's super cool and it's right here
at the edge of the high line around 34th street i believe in the hudson yards area the sun is
shining it's been gray so far here in new york and let me tell you the city's done an amazing
job with their public facilities we've gone to several public restrooms since we've been here
and they've all been very clean very well kept this is one right behind me near the hudson yards