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High Line Construction Update
From Friends of the High Line. CONSTRUCTION UPDATE: REMOVALS COMPLETE ON SECTION ONE
Since our April 10 Groundbreaking ceremony, the City’s team of contractors has made major advances on the High Line. The first phase of construction, removal of debris and nonstructural concrete, has been completed for Section 1, from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street. This phase included removal and storage of all the original rail tracks, which were tagged and mapped so that some can be integrated into the design of the new High Line landscape.
The contract for the next phase of construction has been awarded, through a public bidding process, and work is set to begin in September… This phase of construction is expected to continue into summer 2007, after which the next phase, construction of access points and the public landscape atop the structure, will begin. The first section of the High Line is scheduled to open in 2008.
