Phase II of the High Line Now Open!
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<p>Let's take a walk north from 20th Street, at the end of Stage 1. This is just past the gate.</p>
<p>Here's a cool bird feeder / art sculpture by the talented artist <a href="http://gothamist.com/2006/05/21/sarah_szes_intr.php">Sarah Sze</a>, around 21st Street.</p>
<p>This heavily wooded area is just before the lawn begins at 23rd Street.</p>
<p>These are the benches just south of 23rd Street. </p>
<p>This glorious ribbon of grass is the High Line lawn- it stretches for a few blocks north of 23rd. </p>
<p>The old REVS/COST piece can still be seen at 23rd Street.</p>
<p>Looking West over 23rd Street.</p>
<p>Cool benches under one of the many futuristic silver buildings which have popped up recently in West Chelsea. </p>
<p>This is the entrance to the "fly-over" area, where paths run above the track bed. </p>
<p>Looking south from the middle of the Flyover. </p>
<p>The Flyover contains a bunch of these bench areas.</p>
<p>One of the new entrance staircases.</p>
<p>Looking south back towards the Fly Over around 26th Street.</p>
<p>This frame used to belong to one of the billboards on the High Line. Now it frames a view looking East towards the housing projects.</p>
<p>A big bench facing the billboard overview area.</p>
<p>This is the beginning of the long straightaway running up to 28th Street. Some critics have complained this area seems underdeveloped compared to the stretch further south.</p>
<p>Another view of the straightaway.</p>
<p>Looking south, from the middle of the straightaway.</p>
<p>At the top of the Straightaway, there's this cool turn, where the line veers West. There's a huge stretch of bench here.</p>
<p>This is an interesting spot at 30th Street. Parts of the trackbed have been stripped away, so you can see the metal that holds up the line.</p>
<p>Looking down through the cutaway at 30th Street.</p>
<p>And here we are, at the end of Stage 2, looking North into Stage 3, which circles the West Side Railyards and ends at a stub that runs across 10th Avenue. Some day we will walk here!</p>