Sundancechannel.com Tells 10 'High Line Stories'
Profiles Of Backers Of NYC Railway-Turned-Park Will Air on Network Later
Staff -- Multichannel News, 5/14/2009 6:42:22 PM
Sundancechannel.com is premiering High Line Stories, profiling those involved in transforming the elevated railway on the west side of Manhattan, starting May 26.
The series tells the story of the High Line in New York City, profiling those involved in transforming this neglected, 1.5 mile elevated railway into a park in the sky.
Celebrities and city officials, artists and architects are featured, exploring their relationship to the High Line, what it means for New York City and how it represents an example of taking a derelict post-industrial site (as seen in the Joel Sternfeld photo at left) and making it green and beautiful. ASICS is the sponsor.
The episodes will be used as interstitial programming later on Cablevision-owned Sundance Channel.
The Web site will feature exclusive material such as photographs, architectural drawings and an interview with Robert Hammond and Joshua David exploring urban renewal in Sundancechannel.com's new blog, SUNfiltered.
The 10 High Line Stories episodes line up this way:
1: Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker; 2. Adrian Benepe, commissioner, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation; 3. Amanda Burden, chair, New York City Planning Commission; 4. James Corner, landscape architect for the High Line, and Piet Oudolf, planting designer for the High Line; 5. Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer; 6. Ric Scofidio and Liz Diller, High Line architects; 7. Ethan Hawke, actor; 8. Joel Sternfeld, photographer; 9. Robert Hammond and Joshua David, co-founders of Friends of the High Line; 10. Kevin Bacon, actor.
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