One factor of the current poll is “Gardening and landscaping”, which is defined as maintenance of public green areas. It also means creating and building new public green areas and there is an interesting project to find in New York City: A defunct stretch of railroad on the Far West Side of Manhattan is destined to become a park in the sky.

The High Line is an abandoned 2.33 km (1.45 mile) section of the former elevated freight railroad of the West Side Line, along the lower west side of New York City borough of Manhattan between located in the West Village. The High Line was built in the early 1930s by the New York Central and has been unused by freight service since 1980. It is in a state of disrepair, although the elevated structure is basically sound. Wild grass and plants grow along most of the route.

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