The Hooked Nose: The New Park on the Old High Line

The favourite park pass time of people-watching is also provided for. You can present yourself to be watched on the reclining loungers at the Sundeck, or ogle the hapless guests of the Standard Hotel in their rooms and in the hotel's ... The nineteenth-century park was the antithesis of the industrial yard: a place where you went to purge yourself of the poisons of modern life. The High Line Park is something else entirely. It heavily references the industrial but is ...