

Garden design lessons from the High Line, New York City
Design My Garden recently visited New York’s famously inventive High Line, a public park that has been made over from a defunct, elevated railway line. The High Line was a freight rail line called the West Side Line, originally owned by the New York Central Railroad and eventually taken over by CSX Corporation after decades of mergers in railroads. The West Side Line was operational 1934 to 1980. The last train on the line was in 1980 and carried three railcars of frozen turk