How NYC’s Most Dangerous Street Became a Popular Public Park | Walking Tour | Architectural Digest
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- Today AD joins architect Nick Potts in New York City for a walking tour of The Highline. Once dubbed ‘Death Avenue’ due to hundreds of railroad deaths, the area is now a thriving public park, lined with designer buildings courtesy of some of the world’s most famous architects. Explore with Nick and discover how The Highline has transformed NYC’s Meatpacking District.
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Director: Hiatt Woods; Skylar Economy
Director of Photography: Eric Brouse
Editor: Daniel Finn
Host: Nick Potts
Producer: Skylar Economy
Director of Creative Development, Lifestyle: Morgan Crossley
Field Producer: Christie Garcia
Line Producer: Joe Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon Fuhr
Production Manager: Melissa Heber
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Camera Operator: Marc Manasse
Audio Engineer: Brett Van Deusen
Production Assistant: Caleb Clark; Sonia Butt
Post Production Supervisor: Andrew Montague
Post Production Coordinator: Holly Frew
Supervising Editor: Christina Mankellow
Additional Editor: Paul Tael
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell; Fynn Lithgow
Colorist: Oliver Eid
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The Highline is a marvel and a testament to urban adaptive re-use principles, instead of the usual wasteful demolition. However, the new banal glass buildings surrounding it dont really connect to the area's rich industrial past and leave much to be desired architecturally - Zaha Hadid's being the exception ofc.
Very thoughtful summation!
I actually thought the opposite. Look at the shot at 9:11 for example. For me these buildings have industrial themes, and I think altogether it looks cool and almost sci-fi-ish.
Speak English bro
@@davidruffin473skill issue
Insulated glass and greed ruined the world sadly.
I use to walk the highline before it was a park, and then years later would sell my photos on it...its nice to be a part of its history
I visited the Highline when it first opened and it was nothing you'd experience in NYC. It's like an oasis above the city. However, these days, it's pretty crowded so better to visit during off seasons. It's actually lovely to visit during the winter.
Yeah the tourist took over ☹️. No hate to the tourist at all but people tend to stand still and take a photo which stops the flow of the highline, and it’s a very narrow walking path.
I remember first hearing about the story of the Highline (and what a monumental task it was to convert it into a park) on some podcast many years ago and it became one of my favorite places in NYC ever since.
Agree. It was sensational before Hudson Yards opened.
@@TheDumplingGecko so you expect tourists to just not take photos of NYC? Especially when it's The highline, an oasis above the city, like the comment said. I'm sorry but your comment sounds dumb.
Walking Tour is my favorite series on this channel.
Same! The celebrity homes are just grotesque - if you want movie stars, just watch Bravo or something. Nick Potts is so smart and he is such a great teacher. Love it.
Born and raised in NYC but haven’t been back in twenty plus. Had heard of all these changes, didn’t realize how amazing it is…remember when…thank you for the tour. Have to visit
And don’t forget the subway platform at Ground Zero when you go to New York is beautiful
6:30 Do people often walk backwards in New York, or did they play that clip in reverse? 😂
How could you give an entire tour of the high line and never once mention the landscape architect James Corner who designed it??
MORE WALKING TOURS WITH Nick plz!!
Love the high line so much! Great video. Thanks for sharing this history!
The Highline was the highlight of my visit to NYC last year… really loved it
The highline is beautiful! Was there 3 weeks ago!
The testament is to Piet Oudolf who has a team working the highline, you know this so why not give him credit where credit is due.
I always LOVE the walking tours!!!
This was just Fab! Thanks for sharing.
There are just not enough walking tour eps. I love them
This marvelous city park design is exactly what New York needs.
This was enjoyable. Thankyou
this was extremely insightul, thank you! i was at the whitney a few months ago and it stands as my favorite museum in NYC. would def reccomend going there and walking at least some of the highline! im hoping more abandoned rail corridors in this country will either be reestablished or transformed like the highline! the benefits are unparalleled
I LOVE seeing the historical pics and videos
The highline is one of the places i felt the most calm in nyc
So well done. Thank you.
Accidentally stumbled upon this gem one time. Such a gem, had no idea it was here.
Another great video
Great video. Thank you.
What a great video! Love NYC!
What a fascinating point - such unique private residences wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for such a public space. A rare circumstance where you have a public’s love of the rich and rare coincide with an architect’s need to be recognized and memorialized and the rich, I guess appreciated :)
My favorite series!
🚶♂🌳 Wow, what an incredible transformation! NYC's most dangerous street turned into a vibrant public park is truly inspiring! 🌆✨ Loved seeing the architectural and urban design elements come together to create a safe and welcoming space for everyone.
mmm no mention of Piet Oudolf, the landscape architect of the Highline itself..
i love NYC history so much. we live in such an amazing city.
Tourism is said to be one of the tops 3 industries in NYC*
Some here describe the High Line as a beautiful oasis in the city, and while it's certainly a charming park built on a derelict industrial rail line. It unfortunately has lost a lot of the charm of what it once was. Even the early version of the High Line before it was fully finished to Hudson Yards was a much more enjoyable space to what it is now, as it's flanked by the soulless luxury condos and residences that have invaded every square inch of the city. No words can describe just how amazing the High Line was before it was "discovered" back when it was just an abandoned elevated track full of unmanicured vegetation. To describe it, it was like just floating above the city in your own private forest, with no one being able to see you. Of course, that was nearly 20yrs ago. Unfortunately much of the spirit of the city has been lost since that time. It really just feels like a playground for the rich these days.
I’ve been surprised with this park. Amazing place
Gorgeous! Perfection!!
Interesting walking Tour!!! 🎉
Definitely on my list of places to visit when in NYC!
I love the high line! The architecture is so beautiful and even though it’s crowded it’s always nicer than the street. I always recommend it to people when they’re visiting nyc. It was funny because 2 years ago my mom came to nyc for the first time since living there in the mid-90s/early 2000s and she was in shock at how developed the west side was, she kept saying i would’ve never come over here when i was living here 😂.
Wonderful tour! Speaking of the Whitney I will be touring Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s studio next Friday. As a former Breakers (Newport) guide I can’t wait! 😊☀️
235 people died in NYC due to cars in 2023. If trains were too dangerous to mix with pedestrians, streets and cars should be re-evaluated too.
Agreed!
Wonder how many people were in the city in the 1800s compared to now
Very interesting!
Love the high line!
I ❤ NY. Too.
Should have pointed out the Fitzroy. Amazing to see something like that built today.
Love the highline, but if you get hit by a massive, slow train, you've kind of earned your ticket to the pearly gates.
Now they are called SUVs.
@@jenl2530 You won't catch me arguing with that 😂
As a native NYer, while I think the high line is nice for a stroll, I always found the area completely soulless and devoid of any real character. Sure you get a brief glimpse into the ultra wealthy and unobtainable homes people live in, but at the end of the day all you’re really getting is a giant dose of peak capitalism.
This so much.
I was there when it first opened. Ed Norton was talking about it on Charlie Rose and I was walking around the meat packing and then like oh the highline is open!
Should have mentioned that the High Line was designed by the landscape architecture firm Field Operations, while naming all the architects and amazing developments along it.
okay awesome!
Interesting 😊
There is no reason in making a video about the Highline without mentioning Piet Oudolf, the garden designer. 😊
Highline Park by Piet Oudolf!!
Lantern House has direct access to the high lines although I’m not sure how often it’s used.
Who designed the "bubble window" building at 8:52? I've seen that in person and it's quite striking. I don't know if I like it or not, but it certainly stands out!
Hadid
Lantern House by Heatherwick who also did the Vessel and Little Island Park
I would love to see what it looks like inside beautiful
One failed office building after another. What’s the occupancy rate of those office buildings? The total absence of anything welcoming to anyone seems to be the goal of 21st century Manhattan
No one can afford to live there.
I adore the Highline but not so much the modern architecture springing up around.
How do you not mention Diller Scofidio and Renfro once?
Can we get a shout out to actor *Ed Norton* and his involvement with "Friends of the High Line"?
The high line was inspired by the coulée verte in Paris' 12th arrondissement. A lot more interations withe the buildings around and a lot less gentrification. Benefits of a smaller scale !
No, no it was not. That is quite a different space.
@@jenl2530 dude it's on wikipedia and in interviews of piet oudolf... So yes it is
An entire video about the high line yet Diller Scofidio and Renfro was even mentioned once.
And after you're done walking The Highline, you can head over to The Milk Bar or Chelsea Market for a nice snack.
Great video
Funny how the same people who hate plastic and demand recycling everything think leaving the iron train tracks there to rust is aesthetically pleasant. You’d think it would make them uncomfortable. It makes me uncomfortable.
I live very close by and the Highline was truly wonderful until they covered it with all those condos. Now, it is simply an elevated sidewalk totally ruined. I live a block away and avoid it, such a shame that something unique was destroyed by architecture
Do new yorkers use the highline or is it only a tourist thing?
Yes, we do use it.
We do but it was something very different to us when it first opened vs what it is now
They should build 'high lines' all over the city. They could connect all the parks and keep the streets for cars a d biking traffic.
Fond memories of the District before it got cleaned up ;o)
Why film this in late winter?
Seattle had the chance to do the same, saw the High line and said naw let's demo ours and pretend to connect the Market to the Sound but not really.😢
to be fair they found problems with the structure and it would collapse in an earthquake
The high line is one of the designer’s biggest regrets because of the gentrification it has caused
Everything will cause gentrification eventually we have to get over that
A lot of character was lost. Definitely regretful.
I see too much shiny metal, glass, modern straight square lines and overbearing monolithic concrete.
Famous architects designed those
@@AbimaelLopez-hz3qqunfortunately architecture is a rather insular career. Famous amongst themselves 🙃
@@lyssasletters3232 They’re egotists
Just kept saying the same thing over and over here. This exists because of this walkway. It wouldnt be here without it.
Whenever I go to New York, the only places I will stay are those closest to the High Line. Best part of NYC, IMO.
Wow, what a suck-up to the ultra-rich (be sure to buy some Van Cleef & Arpels luxury marbles!) and their (mostly ugly, show-off, "hey look at me!") buildings. Just like Soho, the former meat packing district is now a warren of ultra-expensive boutiques that 99% of the Highline visitors couldn't afford to walk through their door...and barely a syllable about the park itself either, or the Federal program that encouraged localities to repurpose unused rail lines into public parks.
Architecture will save the world
A better built enviorment will make people want to leave the house more thats for sure.
I wish cities did stuff like this on purpose, something similar in London would be cool, or Vancouver, it’s super bland downtown
Its effectively the early twentieth century version of the 1990's Bilbau Guggenheim... It the way it has regenerated an area with post industial decline and driven up tourism. Just like after Gehrys Guggenheim was bulit, every city wanted their version of it... and now every city wants their version of a Highline...Thats the damage of sucessful urban developments: they sporn inferior copies everywhere!
Although the high line is an aestheticaly beautiful project and very succesful marketing move, as a public space it is as dull as it can be. There's almost no space for spontaneity, many restricted uses and is almost only used as a catwalk for tourists to take pictures for social media. It is definitely not what public spaces should be for.
What’s below the highline, homeless people encampments?
No
15 BILLION not million for Hudson yards
@AGreenerApple3: At 7:19 - 7:24 the host, & known architect Nick Potts said, "over my shoulder is Hudson Yards. It is a 15 million square foot development at the northern end of the Highline". He did not say 15 million dollars for the Hudson Yards' development. 😂🤣
What da..
Today it is a dangerous Street again...
The Simpsons did an episode based on this.
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Death Avenue?😬 Yikes, really sucks The Vessel inadvertently continued that tradition
I hate cities and especially NYC. This neighborhood would be a nice place to live.
10th ave is not the park.
Gentrification?😂
Wow there is literally NOTHING to like about any of this
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lots of those “no homeless comfort here” benches. The weeds n such are not really attractive.
It’s flowers and there is a buckle berry tree
oof
Weirdly bad video for such an interesting subject. Really below the AD standard.
You can paint a Pig... but its still a Dirty Little Piggy...
Real estate frauds 🔥
Please consider not blinding the viewer with washed out ultra bright maps.
I get progress is inevitable - and I appreciate clever design - but for me NYC lost its soul after 9/11. The skyline is unrecognizable with a hodge-podge of modern buildings competing for attention. It just doesn't feel the same anymore 😕
First comment!
Very important only to you. Certainly.
The look but do not touch or enter strutting peacock buildings surrounding the High Line give off a mixed signal: I am here to be admired and I would not be here without this walking way but I am rather not reminded of your pedestrian presence, stupid tourist. So these multi million dollar buildings become a shallow backround for countless selfies. Very NYC in 2024, very sad.
the high line fucken sucks dude
Tourist trap