High Line Underway

In the January cold, workers are busy to create the next Central Park along Manhattan's West Side. This new public promenade is being built on the old high line train tracks which run from Gansevoort Street to 34th. Near Gansevoort Street, laborers are already installing the concrete planking surface destined to be a walkway for visitors. Cast in Quebec and weighing 600 to 800 pounds, the planks — some 7,600 of them — are hefted by forklifts. They are jigsaw puzzle pieces of a structural system of pedestrian promenades that extend like concrete fingers into the planting beds that will restore the park greenery using 6,300 cubic yards of soil.
Workers up on the line are laboring to complete the first, $71 million phase of the $170 million High Line construction, a section from Gansevoort Street up to 20th Street. Should be really exciting.

Source: NYTimes