Bloomberg to High Line Haters: Cities Change, Get Over It

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The High Line. Rejuvenator of neighborhoods, destroyer of neighborhoods.

Those are basically the two media narratives surrounding the elevated park on Manhattan’s West Side, which just held the groundbreaking for its third and final phase today. Most of the attention in the past has been on how great the design-y new park is, but as locals learn to live with the millions of visitors who flock to the park each year, some of them have started to complain, most notably in the Op-Ed pages of The Times, that the High Line has actually ruined, or at least Disneyified, the neighborhoods surrounding it.

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Asked about these changes today, Mayor Bloomberg did not necessarily disagree with the situation, just the sentiment.
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