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Overview: Park built on steel stringer bridges over city streets
Location: Manhattan, New York County, New York
Status: Open to pedestrians only
Future prospects: Plans are to convert the last remaining part of the elevated line into a park.
History: Opened 1934; Abandoned in 1980; Faced threats of demolition in the mid-1980s and again during the Guliani administration; Conversion into a park began in 2006; Section I opens in 2009; Section II opens in 2011
Design: Steel stringer
Dimensions: Total length: 7,656.0 ft. (1.4 mi.)
Approximate latitude, longitude: +40.74726, -74.00523 (decimal degrees)
40°44'50" N, 74°00'19" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 18/583981/4511176 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map: Jersey City
Inventory number: BH 53106 (Bridgehunter.com ID)