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From the October issue: 

The High Line

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City officials and celebrities, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, City Council speaker Christine Quinn and fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, attended last month’s groundbreaking ceremony for the third and final section of the popular High Line park, Crain’s reported. The $90 million addition, funded by a mix of public and private funds, will be completed in phases, with the first scheduled to be finished in 2014. The third section will extend the park north, between West 30th and West 34th streets, and from 10th to 12th avenues. CSX Transportation, the Florida company that owns and once operated the railroad tracks at the High Line, donated the last section to the city this summer. [more]