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Whitney and City sign agreement for High Line site

The NY Times reported today, in Whitney’s Expansion Plans Are Shifting South, to the Meatpacking District that while subject to review, an agreement has been reached for a new art museum at the southern end of the High Line.

The Whitney recently reached a conditional agreement on Wednesday night with the city’s Economic Development Corporation to buy the city-owned site, at Gansevoort and Washington streets, officials at the museum said yesterday. Plans call for the new museum to be at least twice the size of the Whitney’s home on Madison Avenue at 75th Street, they said, and to be finished within the next five years.