High Line gets $43M cash boost.The city is kicking in $43.25 million in capital funding to design and build what is to be the city's latest public open space on the High Line, the unused elevated rail structure on Manhattan's West Side. The city's latest commitment by $27.5 million increases it's contribution to a total of $43.25 million over the next four years. The funds will pay for project costs such as planning, design, engineering, and construction. To complement the city's funding commitment, Congressman Jerrold Nadler has included $5 million for the High Line in the six-year federal transportation bill that is now moving through Congress. Senators Schumer and Clinton are working to supplement the $5 million while the bill is in the Senate. "Today we're taking an important step forward to realize the full potential of the High Line," Governor George E. Pataki said. "Thanks to great cooperation at all levels of government, the High Line can now be transformed into a new open space for all New Yorkers to enjoy. I want to commend the Friends of the High Line for their enormous efforts to turn this out-of-use rail structure into a beautiful greenway which will enhance the West Side of Manhattan." In addition, one of the most significant developments to occur during the five-year High Line initiative, the State of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , CSX Transportation and Conrail, respectively the current and former owners of the unused viaduct viaduct (vī`ədŭkt') [Lat.,=road conveyor], type of bridge for carrying a highway or railroad over a valley, over low ground, or over a road. , and the city have filed a joint legal petition to the federal Surface Transportation Board (STB See set-top box. STB - set-top box ) transform the High Line into public space through the federal rail-banking program. Rail-banking, a process defined by federal legislation in 1983, allows rail easements EASEMENTS, estates. An easement is defined to be a liberty privilege or advantage, which one man may have in the lands of another, without profit; it may arise by deed or prescription. Vide 1 Serg. & Rawle 298; 5 Barn. & Cr. 221; 3 Barn. & Cr. 339; 3 Bing. R. 118; 3 McCord, R. across the country to be used as public open space. Over 12,000 miles of rail corridors across the country have been converted to rail-trails, many through rail-banking. FHL FHL Federal Home Loan Bank FHL Fantasy Hockey League FHL Flexor Hallucis Longus FHL Ferret Health List FHL Familial Hemophagocytic Lymphohistocytosis FHL Family Health Leave and the City also announced that a team led by the landscape architecture firm Field Operations, working with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a New York City based architectural firm founded by Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio. They are particularly well known for their interdisciplinary approach to architecture. , have been selected to create a master plan for the High Line. The master planning process for the High Line will begin immediately; to engage public participation in the master planning process, a community input forum will be held on October 19 at 7:00 pm, at Metropolitan Pavilion, 110 West 19th Street. To RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. to the input forum, e-mail community@thehighline.org. |
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