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The High Line: A Photo Essay

There is an abandoned train track on the West side of Manhattan, running from 34th Street to Gaanesvoort. Imagine a trail in the woods, full of plants and garbage, hovering above the city. A photo essay by Rosecrans Baldwin.

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There is an abandoned train track on the West side of Manhattan, running from 34th Street to Gaanesvoort. Imagine a trail in the woods, full of plants and garbage, hovering above the city. A photo essay from a day along the line. View the High Line.

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Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin is a founding editor of The Morning News. His first novel, You Lost Me There, is coming out from Riverhead Books in Summer 2010. He most recently wrote the Letters from Paris column for TMN. Someday his ashes will be tossed off Mount Desert Island. His personal site has more information. You can also catch him on Twitter.

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