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Chelsea — The High Line · 12 stops
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Chelsea — The High Line

Midtown, New York

12 stops · ~16 min

🚶 Walking tour📍 GPS guided⤓ Audio works offline

About 45 min walk · 12 stories · Free

Start: Gansevoort Plaza — — Directions
The walk starts at Gansevoort Plaza. Please use headphones and keep audio private.
Location accessAsked on start

Before you start

  1. Put your headphones in.
  2. Start anywhere in the park. For the full route, begin at Gansevoort Plaza. Directions
  3. Press Start, then just walk. Each story plays when you reach it.

Twelve stories from Gansevoort Market to the Spur — the Whitney, Chelsea Market, the Tenth Avenue Square, the fight to save the line and the Plinth.

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Stops
1
Gansevoort Market
From farmers' wagons to sides of beef
2
Whitney Museum of American Art
The museum the Met turned down
3
The High Line's Cut End
Where the wrecking crews finally stopped
4
Diller–von Furstenberg Sundeck
Lounging on the old freight rails
5
Chelsea Market Passage
A train tunnel through a biscuit factory
6
Tenth Avenue Square
Death Avenue and the West Side Cowboys
7
Chelsea Grasslands
A garden copying an accidental meadow
8
Saving the High Line
Two strangers, one community board meeting
9
23rd Street Lawn
A lawn that peels up off a railway
10
26th Street Viewing Spur & the Flyover
An empty billboard frame for the city
11
Wildflower Field
The last train carried frozen turkeys
12
The Spur & the Plinth
Where the mail trains turned
Map preview
Map & route

Tap Open map to see the route and every story.

How this tour works
Autoplay works while this page is open. Bring a charger — GPS and audio use battery over a long tour.
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