High Line: A Field Guide and Handbook - Gardenista
Five million people a year visit Manhattan’s elevated High Line park, which is why you might have experienced some jostling the last time you bent down to inspect a particularly interesting specimen of local flora (or fauna).
Next time you visit—and you really should try to get up there for the white dogwoods, which look like a spring snowstorm in April—take a guide.
A 48-page paperback edition of High Line: A Field Guide and Handbook is £9 from Tipitin.
For US readers, High Line: A Field Guide is $13 from Friends of the High Line.
The book tells the story of the history of the park, a former abandoned elevated rail line that neighborhood activists worked tirelessly to transform into a public space.
Birds, bats, and other inhabitants: their habits (nocturnal and otherwise) are examined in detail.
Do you a New Yorker who doesn’t keep cockroaches?
Here’s a map of the High Line circa 2013 (when the book was published).