I first read about it in the New York Times, in an article that said it was going to be d_____.
demolished
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The High Line is an old, e______ rail line that runs for a mile and a half right through Manhattan.
elevated
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One of the major with the original rail line in the city was that people were frequently r____ o_____ and killed.
run over
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And I assumed someone was working to p_____ it or save it and I could volunteer but realized no one was doing anything.
preserve
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And the goal at first was just saving it from demolition, but then we also wanted to f_____ o____ what we could do with it.
figure out
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And what first attracted me, was this view from the street – which is this, you know, steel structure, sort of r____, this industrial relic.
rusty
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Let’s make this a park, and let’s have it be sort of inspired by this w______.
wildscape
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We thought it would cost 100 million dollars to build. So far it’s cost about 150 million. And the main case was: this is going to make good economic f_____ for the city.
feasibility
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The other thing, it’s generated, obviously, a lot of economic v____; it’s also inspired, I think, a lot of great architecture.
value
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Just one quick example is I realized right after we opened that there were all these people h_____ h_____ on the High Line. And I realized New Yorkers don’t do it.
holding hands
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I think that’s the power that public space can have to transform how people e______ their city and i_____ with each other.
experience; interact
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It t_____ o_____ we were wrong on that. Now people estimate it’s created about a half a billion dollars, or will create about a half a billion dollars for the city.
