climb out of the chaos and into the calm of the High Line. More than 10 entry points between Gansevoort Street and 34th Street lead to the free elevated public park, a verdant refuge built nearly ...

Ricardo Scofidio, an architect in New York City whose firm designed some of the city's most iconic structures such as the High Line elevated park in Manhattan, died on Thursday at age 89 ...

But Scofidio is perhaps best known for leading the design of the High Line, the park in a former elevated cargo rail track on Manhattan's far West Side. For decades, it was a rusting, off-limits ...