{"id":73318,"date":"2013-09-24T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/walking-the-nyc-highline\/"},"modified":"2014-12-22T15:44:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T15:44:36","slug":"walking-the-nyc-highline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/walking-the-nyc-highline\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking The NYC Highline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 450px; height: 340px\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2013\/9\/highline1.JPG\" alt=\"Walking the NYC Highline. Photo credit: Amy Wiener.\" title=\"Walking the NYC Highline. Photo credit: Amy Wiener.\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nNew York City&rsquo;s Highline is one of its best features because it is original, gorgeous, and totally free. The Highline is a walking trail on an out of service raised freight line from the 1930&rsquo;s, running up the Westside of Manhattan from Gansevoort Street to West 30th Street. &nbsp; The trail offers a beautiful view of Manhattan, and clear viewing platforms on each city block. &nbsp;To the East, visitors have a view of the East River, Hoboken, New Jersey, and of course, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\nThe Highline was originally built as a safety measure when freight trains traveling at street level down on 10th avenue caused massive accidents, injuries and deaths. &nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\nThe Highline was built in 1929 as part of a larger city-wide project to make industrial trains in the city safer. &nbsp;The line was opened in 1934 and active until 1980. &nbsp;It was turned into a park when the city proposed to demolish it and a group of concerned New Yorkers and activists rallied to turn it into a public park. &nbsp;The park opened to the public in 2009, with various sections opening in phases over the months and years that followed.\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\nThe collaboration of architects, artists and botanists has led to what is the modern Highline. &nbsp;Restaurants and coffee shops are some of the additional features lining the open space park and are subject to seasonal availability. &nbsp;The Highline is open to visitors of all ages, with many entrances along the trail. &nbsp;Wheelchair access is also available. Why not book a ticket with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/airline-tickets\/\">CheapOair<\/a>&nbsp;and check it out yourself?\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\nDon&#39;t forget to check out the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\">CheapOair<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/cheapoair\" target=\"_blank\">twitter feed<\/a>&nbsp;for more great tips and stories!&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\nPhoto credit: Amy Wiener&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City&rsquo;s Highline is one of its best features because it is original, gorgeous, and totally free. The Highline is a walking trail on an out of service raised freight line from the 1930&rsquo;s, running up the Westside of Manhattan from Gansevoort Street to West 30th Street. &nbsp; The trail offers a beautiful view [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97169884,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73318\/revisions\/97169884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}