📰Our senior director of horticulture, Richard Hayden, shared a few key lessons with Thomas Rutter about how we cultivate our resilient, urban gardens. Through the purposeful combination of native and non-native plants that each play a different role from season to season, we offer a year-round urban oasis for parkgoers and for animals and wildlife—including more than 30 different bee species. Our gardening practices not only help cultivate biodiversity, they bolster New Yorkers' well-being. “Naturalistic gardens aren't a fad," Richard tells Homes & Garden. "These plants, our gardens, they speak to something in all of us. We have all experienced nature, and it brings back memories and feelings.” Learn more about our urban gardening techniques in Homes & Gardens or by visiting Wild by Design Since 2009, our on-park exhibition along the High Line: https://lnkd.in/epr6S7YX
Friends of the High Line
Civic and Social Organizations
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The High Line is both a nonprofit organization and a public park on the West Side of Manhattan. Through our work with communities on and off the High Line, we’re devoted to reimagining the role public spaces have in creating connected, healthy neighborhoods and cities. Built on a historic, elevated rail line, the High Line was always intended to be more than a park. You can walk through gardens, view art, experience a performance, savor delicious food, or connect with friends and neighbors-all while enjoying a unique perspective of New York City. Nearly 100% of our annual budget comes through donations from people like you, who help us operate, maintain, and program the park. The High Line is owned by the City of New York and we operate under a license agreement with NYC Parks. https://www.facebook.com/highlinenyc https://twitter.com/highlinenyc https://instagram.com/highlinenyc
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And that’s a wrap on this year’s #WestSideFestNYC! 👏👏 The West Side is such a special place for art, culture, and nature, and it was such a joy to see our neighborhood brimming with excitement for a full weekend of programming! Our programming would not have been possible without our friends in the West Side Cultural Network, and we are grateful to our fellow partners for their work to bring this weekend to life! Thank you to our neighbors and collaborators who joined us on the High Line and made this weekend possible. 💕💕
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“This will gravely endanger the High Line experience,” shared executive director Alan van Capelle to Stefanos Chen for The New York Times. Today, we launched our campaign to protect the High Line to rethink the proposed rezoning of the Western Rail Yards, which would put the magic of our park in grave peril. We need your support to get the Rail Yards plan back on track. Join our campaign to protect the High Line: ➕ Follow Protect the High Line ➡️ Visit protect.thehighline.org to learn more. 📰 Visit https://nyti.ms/4cCImM2 to read this article in The New York Times.
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📣 Big news: Today, we’re officially launching a new campaign to protect the High Line and rethink the proposed rezoning of the Western Rail Yards, which threatens to put the magic of our park in grave peril. Follow our campaign Protect the High Line and visit protect.thehighline.org to learn more! 📷: Timothy Schenck
Hi 👋 We’re a new campaign to protect the High Line. We're engaging our communities and elected officials to discuss the proposed rezoning of the Western Rail Yards. Without changes, the proposed rezoning would undo a 2009 community negotiated development plan and put the magic of our park in grave peril. Proposed plans—which include the development of three massive towers and a proposed new casino and were produced without any community input—would negatively impact the experience of millions of visitors and obstruct important and iconic views from the High Line. New Yorkers saved the High Line from demolition in the early 2000s, and then we saved the Spur from being torn down a decade later. We need your help to protect the High Line and put the Rail Yards plan back on the right track—community perspectives need to be heard. Visit our website to learn more, let us know what matters most to you about the High Line, and sign up to join us in the effort to protect the High Line: https://lnkd.in/ddpQUV4K 📸: Timothy Schenck
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🎧🌱 Dive deeper into the High Line's naturalistic gardens with our senior director of horticulture Richard Hayden in conversation with Margaret Roach on the latest episode of her podcast, A Way to Garden. Listen now: https://lnkd.in/eMehtBK3 Missed us in the New York Times? Read more about Roach's piece below! ⬇
For The New York Times, the High Line horticulture team sat down with Margaret Roach to reflect on the past, present, and future of our naturalistic gardens. At the High Line, our team must be “open to the evolution, and realizing that it is never going to be done,” shared senior director of horticulture Richard Hayden on stewarding our 6.5 acres of gardens—and perhaps profoundly on our organizational ethos, too. High Line horticulturists shared with Roach how we cultivate and care for our plants and their robust ecologies—amid a largely unique set of conditions. Gardening in 18 inches of soil and with stressors like wind exposure and temperature extremes not found at street level offers substantial challenges, making our carefree-looking gardens anything but effortless. ➡️ Learn more about our approach by reading this article at https://nyti.ms/4bfNMeg or by visiting our Wild by Design Since 2009 exhibition along the park this summer. 📸: Timothy Schenck
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Thanks for joining us on the High Line, Michael and Maria! 👋 Our friends at Today in New York are on a mission to explore special places throughout the tri-state area. On a recent field trip, NBC New York anchor Michael Gargiulo introduced meteorologist Maria LaRosa to one of his long-time favorite NYC spots—our park in the sky. It was a joy to watch Maria's pure wonderment on her first-ever visit to the High Line, and our Executive Director Alan van Capelle even got to join in on the fun! 🌱 Whether you join us for our next ¡Arriba! on August 15 or explore the native plants throughout our gardens, we hope to see you at the park soon. 📺 Watch Michael and Maria’s field trip and plan your next visit to the High Line: https://bit.ly/45TFg3y
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For The New York Times, the High Line horticulture team sat down with Margaret Roach to reflect on the past, present, and future of our naturalistic gardens. At the High Line, our team must be “open to the evolution, and realizing that it is never going to be done,” shared senior director of horticulture Richard Hayden on stewarding our 6.5 acres of gardens—and perhaps profoundly on our organizational ethos, too. High Line horticulturists shared with Roach how we cultivate and care for our plants and their robust ecologies—amid a largely unique set of conditions. Gardening in 18 inches of soil and with stressors like wind exposure and temperature extremes not found at street level offers substantial challenges, making our carefree-looking gardens anything but effortless. ➡️ Learn more about our approach by reading this article at https://nyti.ms/4bfNMeg or by visiting our Wild by Design Since 2009 exhibition along the park this summer. 📸: Timothy Schenck
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Each June, PoliticsNY, amNY Metro, and Gay City News recognize influential LGBTQ+ public officials, business executives, and community leaders who are shaping the future of the city and the state. This year, we're proud to share that Alan van Capelle, Executive Director of Friends of the High Line, has been honored as a PoliticsNY, amNY Metro & Gay City News LGBTQ+ Power Player. Read more from Alan here: https://lnkd.in/eH_iyqzq
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💃🥳🎂✨ ¡Arriba! is our longest-running public program for a reason—and New York certainly showed up last night to celebrate the High Line's 15th birthday at our fiesta in the sky. Our team was so proud to present a night full of dance instruction by Fuákata (experts of Cuban Salsa), live music by Las Mariquitas (New York’s Queer and Trans Salsa band), and an international dance music set by Brooklyn-based DJ Mickey Pérez. For the essential fuel during dance breaks, a big shout-out to our incredible food vendors, including Evelia’s Tamales, and our Chelsea neighbors at Big Booty Bakery for a special birthday cake! Thank you to everyone who made this ¡Arriba! so special. 💚 Missed out on last night's fun? Save the date for our next ¡Arriba! on August 15! 📸: Liz Ligon
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This month marks 15 years of the High Line. 🥳🎂 Birthdays are an opportunity to express gratitude for the years that brought us to this very milestone, and they offer a wish for all the possibilities and dreams to come. We never could have imagined the lasting impact of a happenstance meeting in 1999 of two local residents at a community board meeting. Now, 15 years since the opening of the first section of the park, we celebrate the collective of dreamers like you who got us here and who will carry us into the High Line’s next chapter. To our local neighbors and visitors, we hope you'll join the birthday festivities on the park! We're remixing some of our most popular and longest-running programs, including a special ¡Arriba!—our fiesta in the sky—on June 13. 💃 ➡️ Visit https://bit.ly/3x4NGIg to dive into our story, RSVP for our celebrations, and keep dreaming with us. Cheers to 15 inspiring years! And many more. 🥳🎂 📸: Joel Sternfeld, Andrew Frasz
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