Ogilvy had proposed to change that with an elevated line that would not be ugly.
Using archival photographs from the New York Historical Society and Transit Museum, Ms. Shin will depict the 1942 dismantling of the Second Avenue elevated line and the opening of the sky over an area accustomed to rumbling and shadows.
The demolition of the Third Avenue Elevated subway line set off a building boom and a white-collar influx, most notably of young educated women who suddenly found themselves free of family, opprobrium, and, thanks to birth control, the problem of sexual consequence.
Built 30ft above the streets, on a long -abandoned, elevated freight rail line, the public park is now double in size.
The company will perform well over the remainder of 2011 and through 2012 even as the housing market remains weak and the unemployment rate is elevated, says Value Line analyst Ian Gendler.
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The competition, which attracted 170 submissions, was inspired by New York's High Line -- a derelict section of elevated railroad which has been transformed into a park -- with co-founders Joshua David and Robert Hammond joining the judging panel.
October 30, 2012, 3:31 pm: In the relatively elevated neighborhood of the Upper West Side, downed trees line most of the streets.
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This summer marked the opening of High Line Park, a green space on top of an old elevated railroad trestle.
You hauled lawn chairs onto the abandoned elevated train tracks at Tenth Avenue and 29th Street (where the High Line now runs) and had makeshift parties in the gravelly grown-over grasses on the trestle bridge, bathed in the orange-black air of urban nighttime.
Also Sunday, lawmakers elevated Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, 52, to the position of first vice president, putting him next in line to succeed Castro.
Most bar owners and bar managers look at their bottom line and are too cheap to put a good muddler in the bar, whether fear of theft or elevated ignorance of the mixology world.
Next morning we start out on a trail through a slightly elevated, dense beech forest, which rises, during a hike of seven or eight hours, over the tree line and 3, 500-foot-high Mackinnon Pass, then down the other side.
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