Events

First Public Presentation on High Line Designs (20th to 30th Sts.)

Please join Friends of the High Line and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to preview and weigh in on the new High Line designs.

By Aaron Donovan

10:41 PM EDT on October 18, 2007

Please join Friends of the High Line and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to preview and weigh in on the new High Line designs.

This will be the first public opportunity to see preliminary design plans for Section 2 of the High Line (20th Street to 30th Street). The High Line design team lead, James Corner, principal of landscape architecture firm Field Operations, and Ricardo Scofidio, of architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, will present the design concept, answer questions, and take comments.

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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