The High Line Celebrates its 2,000,000th Visitor!

April 02, 2010 | Author: Auzelle Epeneter | Categories: On the High Line

Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Co-Founder Joshua David, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, 
Zach Hauser, City Planning Commission Chair Amanda Burden, and Lexi Hauser plant an eastern 
redbud tree in the Gansevoort Woodland. Photo by Joan Garvin

Earlier today we welcomed our 2,000,000th visitor to the High Line since the park opened to the public ten months ago.

To celebrate the occasion, and to mark the arrival of the very first spring on the High Line, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, City Planning Commission Chair Amanda Burden, and Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe joined Co-Founder Joshua David to plant a flowering eastern redbud tree (Cercis Canadensis) in the Gansevoort Woodland.

Our lucky 2,000,000th (and 2,000,001st!) visitors were Lexi and Zach Hauser, from Raleigh, North Carolina. This was the first trip to the High Line for Lexi and Zach, who were joined by their mother, Deb, and their family friend, Richard Conolly, a native New Yorker and Chelsea resident. The gang helped plant the new tree and received some very special commemorative gifts: a framed photo of the High Line and limited edition High Line beach towels designed by Diane von Furstenberg.

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