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Two Directions Possible For Old NYC Rail Line
Football Betting Spread Neighborhood property owners want to tear down abandoned freight tracks, but a group of artists and planners wants to turn 1-mile space into a unique, elevated trailNEW YORK -- Like a quiet green river, weed-covered railroad tracks run through Manhattan, hidden in plain sight 20 feet above the city's clogged avenues.
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Commodity Spread Trading The 1.5-mile High Line freight tracks run on a viaduct between converted warehouses. It's a remnant of New York's industrial past that is now at the center of a debate about the future of urban redevelopment.
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Betting Exchange Spread The combination of a pastoral, grassy walk with urban industrial views is what makes the High Line compelling, says Robert Hammond, an artist and co-founder of Friends of the High Line, a group pushing for reuse of the tracks. ''The views aren't Empire State Building views. They're much more integrated into the city.''
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Stock Spread Trading Now, after years of trying to tear it down, the city supports converting the High Line to a public park. At a hearing last week before the federal Surface Transportation Board, which regulates railroads, the city asked that the High Line be ''rail-banked,'' that is, kept intact for use as a trail.
Online Spread Betting This month, the City Council earmarked $15 million to plan and design the park project. Conversion of the rail line into a park would cost an estimated $40 million to $60 million.
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Low Spread Forex Trading * In Akron, Ohio, a Quaker Oats grain elevator was converted into a hotel.
Sport Spread Betting * In Minneapolis, a railroad bridge over the Mississippi River has been converted for use by walkers and bikers.
Trading Spread And Seasonals But the High Line is ''a very unique structure. And the fact that it's 7 acres in Lower Manhattan of open space . . . makes it extremely necessary and valuable for the city,'' says Jeff Ciabotti, director of trail development for the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, a group based in Washington, D.C.
Arbitrage Spread Trading Business owners under the viaduct say the railroad line blocks light, drips rainwater and harbors pigeons. But the High Line has sparked the imagination of many in the arts-focused Chelsea neighborhood through which it runs.
Betting Guide Insider Sports A competition for ideas on how to reuse the tracks, sponsored by Friends of the High Line, attracted more than 700 entries. Proposals included a roller coaster and a 1-mile-long swimming pool.
Betting Spread Successful The railroad that controls the High Line, CSX Corp., says it will negotiate with either the city or the property owners' group; it doesn't want to keep the tracks any longer. ''The railroad is neutral on what happens to the line,'' says Laurie Izes, a CSX consultant who is project manager for the High Line. The association of businesses favoring demolition, Chelsea Property Owners, did not return calls for comment.
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Betting Financial Risk Spread The tracks were built in 1934 to carry freight to Manhattan's industrial West Side. Rail spurs ran directly into buildings, including a former Nabisco factory on West 16th Street -- Oreos were once made there -- that is now a gourmet market.
Betting Point Spread On Nfl The last train ran down the High Line in 1980, reportedly carrying a load of frozen turkeys. Now the 1-mile-long track bed, which ranges from 25 to 80 feet wide, is overgrown with purple aster, Queen Anne's lace and a few apple tree saplings. Among the weeds lie bits of urban debris such as empty bottles and stray shoes.
Betting Point Spread But the height of the tracks, and the clear view down the length of the line, show the city from a perspective available nowhere else.
Super Bowl Betting Spread ''It's the juxtaposition of such different elements -- steel infrastructure and wildflowers,'' that makes a walk on the High Line unique, Hammond says. ''It's a wildflower bed with the Empire State Building in the background.''
Betting Fan Football Guide Proposals to turn the tracks into a trail were first made more than 10 years ago. But the issue has been slowed by complex railroad regulations and by litigation.
Spread Betting Uk The High Line has been close to demolition. In 1992, property owners beneath the line won permission to tear it down if they covered some of the cost. But current Mayor Michael Bloomberg -- unlike his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani -- favors converting it to a trail. And Hammond's college roommate, Gifford Miller, was elected speaker of the City Council last year. Since then, the High Line park proposal has picked up steam.
Betting Betting Fan Football ''There are still a lot of hurdles, but the momentum has definitely shifted,'' Ciabotti says.
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Ig Index Spread Betting When Hammond proposed turning the High Line into a park, ''I thought to myself, that is a truly wacky idea,'' Miller says. Then the two walked the tracks. ''Everyone I know who's walked on it is an immediate convert,'' Miller says. ''It would be such a crime to lose this space and this way of going through neighborhoods.''
Betting Guide Practical But the existence of the High Line has been something of a secret. It's hard to spot except from the buildings that overlook the tracks. Many New Yorkers have never heard of it, and few have walked its overgrown track bed, which is not open to the public.
Betting Blogspot Com Site The High Line project is gaining momentum at a time New York is already focused on urban design with rebuilding plans for the World Trade Center site.
Learn Spread Betting Another proposal would build a football stadium for the New York Jets over rail yards overlooking the Hudson River, adjacent to the north end of the High Line. The stadium would also be used as part of New York's bid for the 2012 Olympics. A renovated High Line is part of that plan.
Financial Spread Trading ''People think the great buildings in New York are already done. I don't think that's true,'' Hammond says. ''Great urban spaces can still be built that are different than the Chrysler Building but are still innovative. Open spaces are going to be the great public spaces of this century, and this could be such a unique one.''
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USA TODAY - 7/29/2003
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