The High Line is a 2,33 km long New York City park built on a section of the former elevated freight railroad spur called the West Side Line, which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan; it has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway. The section was opened in June 2009 and 2011.
The park's attractions include naturalized plantings that are inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew on the disused tracks and new, often unexpected views of the city and the Hudson River. Stretches of tracks and ties recall the High Line's former use. Most of the planting, which includes 210 species, is of rugged meadow plants, including clump-forming grasses, coneflowers, with scattered stands of sumac and smokebush. If one walks up the steps from the buzzing city into the park, one enters a world if it’s own. Peace, nearly melancholy and quietness invites for contemplation and idleness.

Elisabeth Woerndl started photographing the High Line shortly after it was first opened in June 2009 and continues coming back.