New York Central High Line (Wirt: apartment complex, warehouse, train)

[micomplicated]

Hi,

I'm looking for old pictures/video's and information about the New York high Line (not the park, the actual train line).

The reason for this is because we'd like to rebuild a part of it and the surroundings into a scale model.

Time setting does not matter much right now, but I would like pictures and info from the time it was still in use for trains. Around the fifties or sixties maybe.

Thanks for all your trouble! I'm having a hard time finding old pictures on google.

[Kefir King]

Here's a bunch I like:

https://www.google.com/search?q=old+...w=1536&bih=786

[micomplicated]

Thanks! Though I really wish there were more pictures from the past.

Does anyone know wich streets are seen on this picture?

[nightcrawler]

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[nybbler]

Originally Posted by micomplicated

Thanks! Though I really wish there were more pictures from the past.

Does anyone know wich streets are seen on this picture?

The tall buildings in the background on the right are still there and are on the north side of 23rd street east of 10th avenue. That puts the picture south of 23rd but no further south than 18th. (They are the London Terrace apartment complex)

The distinctive blank-walled building with brick columns apparently no longer stands, but on 20th there is now a tenement building (which I'd expect to be have been around when that picture was taken) which would have been visible if this was on 20th. You can see the top windows of that tenement, next to the building with the stepped facade (which also still stands on 20th street), in the middle of the picture. So it's either at 19th or 18th.

There's a very similar building to the missing blank-walled building on the south side of 19th. I'm going to guess that at one point it had a twin on the north side, and so the street in the foreground is 19th. The slight jog in the highline at that point supports this intepretation. The avenue is obviously 10th.

Here's a street view from the Highline at that point. Note the London Terrace apartments in the right background and the stepped facade on the left mid-ground.
23rd and 10th ave, ny, ny - Google Maps

[nybbler]

Ah, jackpot:


Not clear if this is the original (and the above is a crop) or if they are just similar pictures. My guess would be two different shots taken from almost the same place.

Anyway, this second picture shows a building with "ucking corp" (probably "trucking", what were YOU thinking?). That building still stands; it's now the Hauser & Wirth gallery at 511 West 18th Street. So my deduction above was correct, the original picture shows 19th street in the foreground. The blank-walled warehouse and the two buildings next to the High Line are gone, but the third building (just to the right of the warehouse) still stands.

[micomplicated]

wow, thank you so much for all your research! That's really helpfull! great to see it's still there.

[nei]

The London Terrace apartment building is enormous. Saw it recently, and thought what is that enormous building and looked it up. Biggest apartment building in the city?

[micomplicated]

So past few days I have been looking around the area on that picture of 10th avenue, from 18th till 22nd street. That is supposed to become the part I'm gonna build in scale.

I have a question about 10th Avenue;

I noticed that down the high line, on 10th ave, there were rail tracks because till 1929 (???) that's where New York Central trains drove. Also on 11th ave:



picture underneath also shows the tracks on 10th avenue, filled with wagons. Does anybody know untill what year the tracks were on 10th avenue?



Also, if anybody has old pictures of 10th ave, and west 18th street - west 22nd street (30's - 60's / 70's). Please share.

Thank you!

[nybbler]

Originally Posted by micomplicated

picture underneath also shows the tracks on 10th avenue, filled with wagons. Does anybody know untill what year the tracks were on 10th avenue?

1941 was the last year they were in use. The High Line was their replacement.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/re...th-avenue.html