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SHIRLEY DAWSON's avatar

I suggest that you categorize the High Line "Park" as something other than the community space you describe in this post. Certainly, HL has become a tourist attraction but I think it must be considered as a transportation corridor...a route to get from one place to another in a city that offered only hard surfaces for that need. To stroll to work among greenery, to take lunch to the nearest bench that happens to be along a narrow planted strip when time is short...just to walk a block and erase a little tension....these are needs filled by this imaginative use of what was once an abandoned, frayed thread of the City.

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Margaret's avatar

Just finished listening to A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar. It’s a lovely meditation on noticing. I might read it in print next and listen again. So haunting.

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