Friends of The High Line
Photographer Joel Sternfeld gave a lecture on Wednesday night titled What the High Line Meant and Means to Me. Currently there is still a half-mile section of the structure that has not been turned into a public park, because ownership of the property is still in limbo. The organization Friends of the High Linehave been running a series of programs to draw public awareness to their cause, ultimately attempting to gain control of the section so it is not lost to developers. To further support this cause, Sternfeld showed a slide presentation spanning from his childhood in Belle Harbor, Queens to his most recent work, detailing his poetic love affair with the urban environment and the motivation behind his work. Most significantly, his 2001 book Walking the High Line, shot over a year (2000-2001) on the then undeveloped, overgrown rail structure that snakes above the west side of Manhattan. The book also includes a brief history of the High Line itself written by Adam Gopnik, which details the sites progression from a freight train track to its abandonment and its current resurrection as a public park…
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