Did the High Line cause gentrification?


Did the High Line cause gentrification? As Jeremiah Moss, author of Vanishing New York (Dey Street Books, 2017), wrote in a 2012 New York Times op-ed: the High Line has been “a catalyst for some of the most rapid gentrification in the city's history.” Shinya Suzuki Buildings by Gehry, Nouvel, Ban, and Seldorff have sprouted up around New York's High Line.


Is Chelsea Market connected to the high line?

Chelsea Market Passage The High Line runs along the former home of National Biscuit Company, aka Nabisco (now home to Chelsea Market). This is where the Oreo cookie was invented, using flour delivered by trains in this passage. It's now our open-air food court from April to October.