New York City's High Line: A Self-Guided Audio Tour

This self-guided walking tour traverses the High Line itself, from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to Hudson Yards. It passes landmarks like the Chelsea Market, where the Food Network films its hit shows, and the Standard Hotel sometimes called the Eyefull Tower, where hotel guests notoriously expose themselves to park visitors and where Beyonce‘s sister famously went berserk on Jay-Z in an elevator. We‘ll visit several remarkable chapters in the High Line’s story, beginning with a street-level train in the late 1800s that killed so many pedestrians that this became known as Death Avenue. We'll also tell you about a few of the over 700 creative ideas that were submitted for how to repurpose the High Line, from a mile-long swimming pool to a rollercoaster snaking between the buildings. Our walk ends at Vessel, a sixteen-story structure known as the “stairway to nowhere,“ designed to be a Hudson Yards Instagram icon but which became a tragic suicide magnet.

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   Oprirea 1

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   The High Line

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   Whitney Museum of American Art

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   Pier 57

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   Chelsea Market

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   The High Line

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   General Theological Seminary

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   Hudson Yards

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   The Vessel