Article: 30 feet up, the High Line invigorates West Village ; If you go . . .

NEW YORK - "What a great view!" exclaims a young woman, her long hair ruffled by a rainy gust. Three stories above the street, she stands in Manhattan's new, elevated park, the High Line, in the former meatpacking district of the West Village.

Behind her and a few blocks to the west, the Hudson River can be glimpsed between buildings, but the woman gazes in the opposite direction, taking in the patchwork of flat roofs along Washington Street. Fronting the rain-slick pavement, taut black banners announce a row of high-end fashion boutiques in old warehouses where sides of beef once hung from hooks. Below the river side of the High Line, a deliveryman bumps a piled-high dolly over the ...

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