Anyone who’s ever had the pleasure of strolling down the High Line – New York’s remarkable urban park built on the city’s disused raised railway tracks – will be excited to see these newly-unveiled plans for its extension. Snaking round the Rail Yards district, these initial designs show how the wildly-popular project could evolve, mixing the best of the existing features (like the peel-up furniture) with new touches like an in-built kids’ playground. The estimated cost of the third phase is $90 million dollars with a major fundraising campaign underway, with a projected public opening set for spring 2014. We can’t wait.
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Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.