In Popular Culture
- 1988: The protagonist and his boyfriend trespass onto the High Line, before it was converted into a park, in Fun Down There.
- 2001: In Walking the High Line photographer Joel Sternfeld documented the dilapidated conditions and the natural flora of the High Line between 2000 and 2001. The book also contains essays by Adam Gopnik and John R. Stilgoe.
- 2007: The High Line is discussed in Alan Weisman's The World Without Us as an example of the reappearance of the wild in an abandoned area.
- 2007: Some chase scenes in the film I Am Legend were filmed under the High Line and in the Meatpacking District.
- 2011: The park appears in a scene in the second season of Louie as the site of one of the title character's dates.
- 2011: The High Line is featured in the song "The Marching Line" by pop singer Vanessa Carlton on her fourth studio album Rabbits on the Run.
- 2012: A scene in the first season of Girls, a series on HBO, features the High Line.
- 2012: In the Simpsons episode "Moonshine River", the Simpsons go to New York City, where Bart went on an outing on the High Line with his former girlfriend.
- The High Line
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Southern terminus above a meatpacking business on Washington and Gansevoort Streets, before renovation (2005)
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Main line (overhead) and the two sidings at Chelsea Market
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Twilight at 20th Street
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The IAC building by Frank Gehry (top left) along the line, at 18th Street
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