The High Line once stretched farther into lower Manhattan, often passing ... columns that once supported abandoned train tracks now hold up an elevated park—part promenade, part town square ...

To escape the madness of Manhattan’s West ... Street lead to the free elevated public park, a verdant refuge built nearly two decades after the last freight train hauled frozen turkeys across ...

But Mr. Scofidio is perhaps best known for a leading role in the design of the High Line, the park in a former elevated cargo rail track on Manhattan’s far West Side. The project came together ...