The High Line has proven a huge success for tourism, luxury apartment developers and the city’s tax base. But in a Monday report in City Lab, one of the park’s co-founders called it a failure. Robert Hammond, who now runs the Friends of the High Line, a nonprofit that maintains the park, said that his creation has alienated the very neighborhood residents that he had initially hoped to engage.

“We were from the community. We wanted to do it for the neighborhood,” he said. “Ultimately, we failed.”

Hammond said that when planning the park he should have consulted more of his neighbors, who include tenants of two public housing projects that bookend the former elevated rail line. Now he is trying to do additional outreach with residents to get them in the park.

He also has started the High Line Network, which is composed of designers and planners building projects like the High Line around the country.

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The High Line has proven a huge success for tourism, luxury apartment developers and the city’s tax base. But in a Monday report in City Lab, one of the park’s co-founders called it a failure. Robert Hammond, who now runs the Friends of the High Line, a nonprofit that maintains the park, said that his creation has alienated the very neighborhood residents that he had initially hoped to engage.

“We were from the community. We wanted to do it for the neighborhood,” he said. “Ultimately, we failed.”

Hammond said that when planning the park he should have consulted more of his neighbors, who include tenants of two public housing projects that bookend the former elevated rail line. Now he is trying to do additional outreach with residents to get them in the park.

He also has started the High Line Network, which is composed of designers and planners building projects like the High Line around the country.

De Blasio, in State of the City address, keeps focus on economic equality (The New York Times)

Sotheby’s takes over condo sales at 212 Fifth Ave. after owner sues Town Residential (The Real Deal)

City noncommittal on bill to reform commercial-rent tax [subscription required]  (Politico New York)

NYC to curb law allowing cops to boot people from their homes (New York Daily News)

Powerful winds obliterate NYC gas station (New York Post)

Owner flips 56 Leonard penthouse with $35M sale (The Real Deal)

A quest to stop Erasmus Hall Academy’s ‘demolition by neglect’ (The New York Times)

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