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From the start of its construction in 2006 to its initial debut in June 2009, the High Line Park is a noteworthy demonstration of architectural reusability. The park?EUR??,,????'?????<

Formed in 1999, the community-based group, Friends of the High Line, championed the conversion of the elevated railway into a park. From their timeline of the project:

• In response to deaths resulting from the freight railroads and street-level traffic, the City and State of New York and the New York Central Railroad agree on the West Side Improvement Project, which includes the High Line, in 1929. Thirteen miles long, the project eliminates 105 street-level railroad crossings.
• When interstate truck deliveries become the norm during the 1950s, rail usage declines.
• The last train runs on the High Line in 1980.

From its grim beginnings and disuse in the twentieth century to its current redesign, the High Line?EUR??,,????'?????<Photograph by John Hill, A Daily Dose of Architecture

The railroad structure resumed as an urban renewal actor on March 1, 2004, when the Friends of the High Line released a Request for Qualifications to change the 1.5-mile elevated railroad on Manhattan?EUR??,,????'?????<