Highline
![Park/Recreation Area: Green space that offers a place to relax and play outdoors. May include sports fields, picnicking, running paths, canoe rental, or workout/play equipment, along with diverse vegetation and a pond, creek or other water feature. Park/Recreation Area](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_94.gif)
![Public Space/Square: A community gathering place, often car-free, that may have benches, fountain, events, etc., with an inclusive, accessible character. It can be a public space located in a square, garden or park, or even indoors. Public Space/Square](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_95.gif)
![Garden: Gardens that are maintained by public agencies or organization. Garden](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_76.gif)
![Water Recycling: Uses plants, aquatic animals, layered soils, movement, (constructed) wetlands and or/ swales to aerate, filter and purify water, without adding chemicals. Systems that slow the drainage in the built environment, grey water, rainwater gardens, rain barrels and other types of high and low technology water recycling systems that reduce consumption can be included. Water Recycling](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_20.gif)
![Eco-Design/Planning Feature: Exciting design features including public transport stations, plazas, integrated native plantings and street furniture such as kiosks, benches, fountains, or lighting that use materials and energy efficiently, contributing to the streetscape. May be an area planned for ecological soundness or use sustainable infrastructure guidelines. Eco-Design/Planning Feature](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_68.gif)
![Insect Watching Site: Good area to view insects and bugs as they fly or crawl though life. Insect Watching Site](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_89.gif)
![Composting Site: Place where food waste, leaves, garden and lawn cuttings are biodegraded into rich new soil. Can include large-scale or demonstration projects, drop-off sites, or places to buy locally produced compost, or to get information, worms and resources for indoor and garden composting. Composting Site](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_25.gif)
![Reuse: Products, materials or building elements exchange, second-hand market or store. Significant reused buildings, art or other creative reuse and online resources can be included. Reuse](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_13.gif)
Overview
According to The High Line's website, wherever possible, they strive to make sustainable choices as they planned, built and maintain what they call the world's 'longest green roof'. Built on an old rail line, most of the High Line’s plants are native species, and mostly locally grown. The High Line does not use pesticides or chemical fertillizers, and they are in the process of establishing on-site compost facilities.
Bike racks are located at the following locations along the High Line: Gansevoort, 16th, 18th, and 20th Street. You can enter at 14th Street via an elevator on the south side of the street. Phase 2, now under construction, adds 10 blocks going north to this popular promenade.
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