Last Stretch Of New York's High Line To Open

NEW YORK (AP) — The last stretch of New York's High Line opens Sunday, completing one of the nation's most distinctive urban transformations: an abandoned stretch of elevated rails that's been turned into a linear oasis of flowers, grasses and trees. Luxury condos, galleries and boutiques have all but pushed out the industrial grime around the old freight route that once delivered goods to warehouses, meatpacking and manufacturing plants. Street-level freight trains that ran on Manhattan's West Side between 1851 and 1929 caused so many accidents that Tenth Avenue was known as "Death Alley," and so-called "West Side Cowboys" on horses rode in front of the trains to prevent collisions with vehicles and pedestrians. Today, the High Line park — built with $223 million in both government and private funds — draws nearly 5 million visitors a year, offering an expansive view of midtown Manhattan and the Hudson River. Visitors walk on concrete slabs softened by grasses, shrubs, and trees peeking from crevices and benches surrounded by blossoms.

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