tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post3971974483083006182..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: Deconstructing the High LineJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-23945455587844966932017-11-06T14:48:48.365-05:002017-11-06T14:48:48.365-05:00https://www.facebook.com/artistpres/
-------------...https://www.facebook.com/artistpres/<br />-------------------------------<br />The High Line Hates Artists<br />by Robert Lederman<br /><br />EXC ERPT:<br /><br />The High Line prides itself on being one of NYC's most important art venues. It even has a paid full time art curator. Unfortunately, the High Line hates artists.Robert Ledermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10888963826160919027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-75941539152184888542017-11-03T23:37:00.215-04:002017-11-03T23:37:00.215-04:00It was better when there were no buildings blockin...It was better when there were no buildings blocking the view. That's honestly what ruined it. Proper planning and following the old city zoning laws would've eliminated this ( I'd be glad to dig up photos I took 4-5 years ago of my walk along the high line close to Christmas time). Proper planning and taking the neighborhoods into consideration would've prevented a great idea from being such a consequential disaster.Kink&Blue88https://www.blogger.com/profile/05074765273245921125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-59351389270040502442017-10-26T12:33:14.230-04:002017-10-26T12:33:14.230-04:00The High Line, is neither good nor evil, flawed or...The High Line, is neither good nor evil, flawed or perfect: it is what it is to whoever is judging it at the time. <br /><br />For me, the High Line is much more symbolic in its nature and cannot help seeing it that way.And that way is a rather negative one. To me, the Highline represents the end of New York, at least the New York that existed for 200 years or so, one based on commerce and industry and one that took full advantage of being the world's greatest natural harbor. All gone. <br /><br />What has replaced it is far uglier than any critic of gentrification sees. By eliminating a large working middle class (which, let's face it, is what gentrification seeks to do) we have a city with out of control rents, where the cost of living is absurdly high, and all the things that made New York City, "NEW YORK CITY," is destroyed. <br /><br />I recall a time when I was able to attend the opera regularly, along with theater, concerts, and museums. If I were to take a date out for dinner and a Broadway show now I would have to sell my car first. The opera? The time one could afford an orchestra seat is long gone. It's madness, and if not madness, it is at the very least decidedly NOT the city I once knew and loved, that was once loved by people around the world. <br /><br />This is what the Highline means to me. There is no way to make it palatable. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />SadEndinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10104166860952973172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-18079702223982644042017-10-24T09:34:55.240-04:002017-10-24T09:34:55.240-04:00It's too bad the High Line isn't still in ...It's too bad the High Line isn't still in use for what it was originally built for: Trains bringing goods into the city, to then be distributed in step vans. Now you have 18-wheelers traversing the already clogged streets of Manhattan creating absolutely miserable traffic conditions all over. I think the High Line as it is now is a crowded mess and mostly boring.TJ DeRingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03537890391434254966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-52124316891455775542017-10-20T21:49:33.945-04:002017-10-20T21:49:33.945-04:00The High Line is a beautiful, inspiring, amazing p...The High Line is a beautiful, inspiring, amazing place open to the whole world for free.<br />A failure? I know that there are people who love to project their own inner crankiness onto the world and call it piercing social analysis, but this is a new level of negative naysaying. I guess we should call Central Park a colossal failure and sin against lower income residents too. After all, look at the property values all around it. Aye caramba guys, take some mushrooms or smoke a fatty and EXPERIENCE the High Line with your senses. Rather than overanalyzing it with your politically grumpy minds.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18370530335045231338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-68063286299920696852017-10-19T16:52:47.595-04:002017-10-19T16:52:47.595-04:00The below sentence sums up why the NIMBY crowd mus...The below sentence sums up why the NIMBY crowd must be ignored. You have to be open to change and renewal, then you work at managing it. <br /><br />"In reality, I don’t think such adaptive reuse projects can do anything but heighten socio-economic inequality in cities with high levels of property speculation, and I think it is doubtful to see such projects come to fruition if there is not a heavy element of market-rate property development incorporated into plans. In areas where there is less development pressure, the gentrification concerns might perhaps be lower, but at the same time there would be more difficulty in securing the sort of philanthropic funding required to create something like the High Line. "Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06955817483460468028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-10610810310847008062017-10-19T07:46:06.828-04:002017-10-19T07:46:06.828-04:00Isn't it passé by now to bash the High Line? Y...Isn't it passé by now to bash the High Line? Yes, thinking people all recognize it as a complete failure. But the honking hordes of bourgeois tourists flock there, adoring the sensation of being cattle herded toward slaughter. And other, even more idiotic, people actually buy apartments directly facing the cattle.<br /><br />I must admit that I once found myself there on a quiet weekday early morning, before the marching morons descended en masse, and it had a certain charm, but that was before all the new construction which has turned it into a viewless canyon.<br /><br />But I see I've fallen victim to the, as noted, passé allure of High Line bashing myself. It's irresistible, isn't it?Scouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07860208585189661470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-39311818998389874192017-10-18T09:44:41.858-04:002017-10-18T09:44:41.858-04:00Another likely reason the High Line avoided initia...Another likely reason the High Line avoided initial critique is because during the Guiliani administration, there was the threat that it would be demolished. Joel Sternfeld's book "Walking the High Line" showed how beautiful it had become, left alone, and the movement to save it began. And much of the initial "renovation" of the line was to make it safe for visitors - essentially removing and reinstalling nature to be mass-accessible.<br /><br />Of course, the popularity of the park, and further gentrification around it, has turned it into a symbol of exclusion and hyper-gentfiication at its most uncontrolled.Downtownerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06270523045141776338noreply@blogger.com