<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.thehighline.org </Td> </Tr> <P> The High Line (also known as High Line Park) is a 1.45 - mile - long (2.33 km) elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail . It was created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan in New York City . Led by the landscape architecture firm of James Corner Field Operations, the abandoned spur has been redesigned as a "living system" drawing from multiple disciplines which include landscape architecture, urban design, and ecology . Since opening in 2009, the High Line has become an icon of contemporary landscape architecture . </P> <P> The park is built on a disused, southern viaduct section of the New York Central Railroad line known as the West Side Line . Originating in the Lower West Side of Manhattan, the park runs from Gansevoort Street--three blocks below 14th Street, in the Meatpacking District--through Chelsea to the northern edge of the West Side Yard on 34th Street near the Javits Center . The West Side Line formerly extended south to a railroad terminal at Spring Street, just north of Canal Street . Most of its southern section was demolished in 1960, and another small portion was demolished in 1991 . The High Line was inspired by the 3 - mile - long (4.8 km) Promenade plantée (tree - lined walkway), a similar project in Paris which was completed in 1993 . </P> <P> Due to declining usage, the railway viaduct was effectively abandoned in 1980 . Repurposing the railway into an urban park began in 2006, with the first phase opening in 2009 and the second phase opening in 2011 . The third and final phase opened to the public on September 21, 2014 . A short stub above Tenth Avenue and 30th Street will open by 2018, when the first phase of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project is complete . </P>

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