While the High Line park is by no means perfect, the criticisms collected by Oobject are perhaps the weakest and most irrelevant we’ve ever heard. Among their complaints: the new park isn’t lit up with gaudy lights, there are no plants in an area that doesn’t see sunlight, it’s longer than it is wide, and the far-fetched claim that people won’t use it. Skimming the irrational arguments, it becomes pretty apparent that whoever’s behind them hasn’t actually seen the park in person, in part because of repeated speculation that the non-existent pedestrian areas underneath the trestle will harbor crime, danger and other scary things. Whoever came up with them should have their internet ranting privileges revoked.
A decade after Friends of the High Line was founded to advocate for saving the historic structure, the first section of the elevated park opened to the public this week. The railway that once carried cattle to slaughter now bears the weight of visitors comfortably walking and lounging along the pathway between Gansevoort and West 20th Street. While many of the original tracks have been preserved amidst the new walkways, flowers, foliage and LED lighting, it’s sad to see that not just some, but all of the paintings and graffiti that added some depth and character walls along the tracks are gone. Read more »
If it’s not coyotes in Central Park, it’s roosters in the playground. Right across the river from Yankee Stadium in Frederick Johnson Playground, a large crack head looking rooster has taken residency the last two weeks, dutifully pecking around and fending off attackers.
The theory is that it was a cockfighting bird, loosed upon the playground because, well, that was probably the most logical place for the previous owner to leave it: trees, children on swingsets, nodding off junkies–perfect place to leave a wild screeching rooster used to fighting for its life in an abandoned basement.
One park official said the rooster grappled with a large dog last week and ominously stated that the bird “fears no man”. The official also said that he’s been feeding it food scraps, which is sweet and all, but with that potentially population-diminishing Avian flu pandemic you’d figure he would stop feeding it and, um, HAD IT FUCKING REMOVED BY NOW. Did they not see fucking Outbreak?
More photos of the bird that could possibly kill us all, after the jump.
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