citylikeyou — The High Line — New York by Jason Koxvold

New York / Park / Bridge

I have old friends in San Francisco who grudgingly tell me that the High Line is everything that’s wrong with New York. Well, too bad. To me, it embodies a culture that’s constantly reinventing itself: a defunct elevated railway that was becoming a burden to the city (“we used to climb up there to throw garbage bags full of rotting Korean food at the Hasids!”, noted a successful photographer’s assistant) becoming a startling example of urban greening for the public good. The expert landscaping makes it feel like walking on a Montauk beach - but a stone’s throw from some of New York’s most progressive galleries and hotels.

Website
thehighline.org

Address
The High Line, 529 west 20th street, Manhattan, New York, United States

Photographer Artist

Current city: New York

koxvold.com

Jason Koxvold is a creative director at StrawberryFrog, artist, and co-founder of Renegade Pencils, an organisation that helps give children access to a creative education. His work has been exhibited at MoMA, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, RESFEST, SXSW and the Los Angeles Film Festival. He has held creative workshops in Singapore; glued reflective balls to interns in San Francisco; spent hundreds of hours photographing landfills in Tokyo; driven an ambulance across Europe and Central Asia to raise money to build schools; raced motorcycles in the Scottish grand prix series; been interviewed by the Russian FSB in a holding cell in the Arctic Circle, and by the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Kentucky.

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