Flowers on the High  Line. The High Line was the elevated railroad tracks that brought trains into the Chelsea and Meat Packing areas of Manhattan. The trains stopped running in the 1960's and the structure lay dormant with the discussion whether to tear it down. Private citizens took the initiative to convince the City to preserve it and to make it a special park funded in large part by private donations. It opened the stretch of renovated park land in the mid 2000's and has enabled a fantastic economic resurgence in the area with new apartment buildings, restaurants, schools, etc.