Section One

Gansevoort to 14th Streets

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19th century illustration of Fort Gansevoort. Image courtesy New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
19th century illustration of Fort Gansevoort. Image courtesy New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs
describing for screen readers and good SEO
The southern entrance to the High Line
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The “Slow Stairs” from across Gansevoort Street, October 2014

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Joshua David (left) and Robert Hammond in the West Side Rail Yards, ca2000. Photo: Joel Sternfeld
Joshua David (left) and Robert Hammond in the West Side Rail Yards, ca2005. Photo: Joel Sternfeld, courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
High Line HQ, December 2014
A Friends of the High Line horticulturist working in the garden, April 2024. Photo: Annik LaFarge, author of On the High Line
The horticulturists are the heart and soul of the High Line

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Birch Trees along the rails in the Gansevoort Woodland
Birch trees in the Gansevoort Woodland, lit from below
Large photograph on exterior of the West Coast Apartments shows how the High Line once continued south.
Raised steel planters at the southern end of the Gansevoort Woodland
Bell Labs on Bethune & Washington Streets. Photo: West Side Improvement Brochure
A train passes through the Bell Labs, today’s WestBeth. Photographer unknown
Bell Labs w/ smokestack at left. To the north: Manhattan Refrigerating Warehouse & Nabisco Factory. Photo: West Side Improvement Brochure

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A map of the original Manhattan shoreline, using data from the Mannahatta Project and Welikia.org

Map by Marty Schnure

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Manhattan Refrigerating Company warehouse with a NY Central Line refrigerated train in foreground. Photo: George P. Hall, New-York Historical Society
Manhattan Refrigerating Company the year the High Line opened, 1934. Photo: West Side Improvement brochure
Aerial shot of the Manhattan Refrigerating Co. warehouse, with the Miller Highway in foreground. Photographer unknown
The West Coast Apartments, formerly the Manhattan Refrigerating Co. warehouse, 2012
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