The 19th century brought a population boom and rapid growth in manufacturing to New York City. To serve the growing metropolis, freight rail lines were constructed along the city streets and waterfronts. The High Line was built by New York Central . . . — — Map (db m313080) HM
1840s An Industrial Waterfront
The West Side of Manhattan is the country's busiest industrial waterfront. In 1847, the City of New York authorizes street-level railroad tracks. Trains from Hudson River Railroad, which later becomes the New . . . — — Map (db m313085) HM
The Western Rail Yards section is a time capsule of the self-seeded landscapes that sprung up along the High Line when the trains stopped running in 1980—a landscape that inspired the campaign launched in 1999, which would eventually rescue the . . . — — Map (db m313070) HM
