The High Line

The High Line, the elevated train track built in the 1930s to service the warehouses on Manhattan's West Side, should by rights have been torn down in the 1980s, when trains stopped using it. But instead, a small miracle happened. The High Line has been turned into an urban park. New York now has its version of the Promenade Plantée in Paris, the elevated walkway that runs from the Bastille Opera House to the Bois de Vincennes.