The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:40:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Park Open http://www.theawl.com/2011/06/park-open http://www.theawl.com/2011/06/park-open#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:40:25 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2011/06/park-open OMG, you guys, The High Line Part II is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC RIGHT NOW. Run don't etc.

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2011/06/park-open/feed 3 A Brief Survey of the High Line Park http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-brief-survey-of-the-high-line-park http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-brief-survey-of-the-high-line-park#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:00:08 +0000 Rod Townsend http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-brief-survey-of-the-high-line-park A statistical analysis of 100 people in order this afternoon on the High Line.


Rod Townsend is the purveyor of an online magazine for gays, so he would know.

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-brief-survey-of-the-high-line-park/feed 19 Some Pictures Of The High Line http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/some-pictures-of-the-high-line http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/some-pictures-of-the-high-line#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:50:47 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/some-pictures-of-the-high-line In case you didn't get enough from our photos of the High Line when it opened or, uh, haven't been there yet yourself, here's a pretty decent gallery that takes a more recent look. Enjoy!

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/some-pictures-of-the-high-line/feed 2 Standard Hotel Guests Bring The Meatpacking District Into Disrepute http://www.theawl.com/2009/08/standard-hotel-guests-bring-the-meatpacking-district-into-disrepute http://www.theawl.com/2009/08/standard-hotel-guests-bring-the-meatpacking-district-into-disrepute#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:00:23 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/08/standard-hotel-guests-bring-the-meatpacking-district-into-disrepute
Trouble at the High Line. It seems that guests of the Standard Hotel, which overlooks the converted railway, have been offering performances of a sexual nature for the benefit of those who wander beneath. Some of these performances, even the solo shows, have been rather graphic, and neighbors are up in arms! Fortunately, the hotel has a plan to address the issue: They're going to make a "concerted effort to remind guests of the transparency of the guest room windows," which will surely not give anyone who hadn't already considered it any ideas.

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Trouble at the High Line. It seems that guests of the Standard Hotel, which overlooks the converted railway, have been offering performances of a sexual nature for the benefit of those who wander beneath. Some of these performances, even the solo shows, have been rather graphic, and neighbors are up in arms! Fortunately, the hotel has a plan to address the issue: They're going to make a "concerted effort to remind guests of the transparency of the guest room windows," which will surely not give anyone who hadn't already considered it any ideas.

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It's like one of those movies set in New York City but clearly filmed in Canada, except this is better than Canada. Also, donating millions of dollars to the park was the smartest thing Barry Diller ever did, because the High Line is the only vantage point onto his Frank Gehry-designed headquarters building that makes it look actually exciting.

There were no poor people there yet. There were many homosexuals.

Here's what you can see: the personal trainer teaching a man boxing in the Equinox; lots of New Jersey; luxury construction both in progress and abandoned; billboards; the General Theological Seminary; the Andy Warhols and Tom Wesselmans inside Phillips auction house; double-tiered parking structures; the exercise yard atop the womens' prison on 20th Street.

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It's like one of those movies set in New York City but clearly filmed in Canada, except this is better than Canada. Also, donating millions of dollars to the park was the smartest thing Barry Diller ever did, because the High Line is the only vantage point onto his Frank Gehry-designed headquarters building that makes it look actually exciting.

There were no poor people there yet. There were many homosexuals.

Here's what you can see: the personal trainer teaching a man boxing in the Equinox; lots of New Jersey; luxury construction both in progress and abandoned; billboards; the General Theological Seminary; the Andy Warhols and Tom Wesselmans inside Phillips auction house; double-tiered parking structures; the exercise yard atop the womens' prison on 20th Street.

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