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<b>High Line</b><br> A green ribbon 1.5 miles long, twisting through the Manhattan sky? It sounds like the stuff of dreams, but Joshua David and Robert Hammond, founders of Friends of the High Line, are bringing this futuristic park and walkway to life. Their vision of a 22-block-long, 30-foot-high green space on top of the former High Line train track has united New Yorkers in a campaign to save the elevated railroad and turn it into a public park.
CNN: Can you describe the first moment you came up onto the High Line?

JD: We’d come up with this idea that we wanted to make a park up here, yet we’d never set foot on it, so to step out on the High Line was just breathtaking. To have this huge vista of space opening up in front of you, seven acres of it that was just hidden away in between the buildings in Manhattan, was incredible.
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