'Clearly the city has turned a tidy profit on its investment in the High Line. The question is whether that investment was worth it.'

摘要

This past June, almost a decade after the High Line first opened in 2009, and long after I'd written it off as a place that isn't really for New Yorkers, I rediscovered it. Unexpectedly, my epiphany came when I was visiting its new neighbor, Hudson Yards, with a group of students to tour the Shed, the development's multipurpose arts institution, and to climb the 154 stairways of Vessel, the Thomas Heatherwick-designed folly, in an attempt to discuss the overall honesty of the place (we'd been reading John Ruskin's "The Lamp of Truth"). We gathered in a little elevated plaza, called the Spur, located immediately east of 10 Hudson Yards.