The HIGH LINE finally opened! Years in the making, the High Line is a new, elevated public park in downtown Manhattan whose steel structure once carried the West Side freight rail road from 34th street down to the Meat Packing District and West Village, several stories above the ground. The rail line closed in 1980 and was an abandoned, overgrown eyesore until the city invested $50 million dollars into refurbishing it. High Line park finally opened on June 8, 2009.
