SEVENTY FIVE HUNDRED assembled rambling obsessions

But the High Line, whatever else you can say about it, is a sincere and original response to a genuine social phenomenon. It does what any great work of visual art does, which is to take an inchoate emotional sense shared by a large group of people and make it concrete, visible in three dimensions. What you make of it is largely determined by what you think of its underlying subject, which in this case is gentrification.

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Though The Millions’ premise that The High Line is solely about gentrification is reductionist and distorted in the inevitable way of bystander observation rather than participation, this is nonetheless an excellent read on the history and social role of the iconic park.

Also see High Line: The Inside Story of New York’s Park in the Sky.

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