For those of us whose only timetable is our walking pace, this is the experience of the newly opened, final phase of the High Line. The promise of any urban railroad, however dark or congested its start, is the eventual release onto the open frontier, the prospect that those buried tracks could, in time, take you anywhere. In this article, originally published by Metropolis Magazine as " The High Line's Last Section Plays Up Its Rugged Past, " Anthony Paletta reviews the new final piece to the puzzle, and examines what this landmark project has meant for Manhattan's West Side. With the opening of the final section of New York's High Line last month, the city can finally take stock on an urban transformation that took a decade and a half from idea to reality - and which in the five years since the first section opened has become one of the great phenomena of 21st century urban planning, inspiring copycat proposals in cities around the globe. View looking west along one of the Rail Track Walks.
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