A View from the High Line: Perfect Spot for Knox’s Nixed Mural?

Inadequately adorned wall, facing the High Line. Calling Knox Martin!

Those of you who read my Twitter tweets know that one of the places I visited during my Labor Day Weekend Staycation was the High Line, Diller Scofidio+ Renfro's brilliant transformation (with a major assist from James Corner Field Operations, the landscape architects) of New York's derelict elevated train tracks into a glorious urban park. [CLARIFICATION: An associate with James Corner wrote to point out that the landscape architects, not DS+R, got top billing on this project.]

I did not have the good fortune to witness any of the "amateur skin shows" that the Lauren Collins of the New Yorker informs us can be spied through "the floor-to-ceiling windows of the new Standard Hotel, at Thirteenth Street." Nor did I feel a bit of nostalgia for the site's former seediness, as does the NY Times' Ashley Gilbertson, who found herself "wishing that the High Line had never been touched," and tried, unsuccessfully, to prove her point by juxtaposing before-and-after photos of the straightaway.

I took delight in the delight of the perambulators---mostly young adults but surprisingly few young children (perhaps because of the raunchy sideshow described by the Times?). I particularly appreciated the clever integration of the rusted tracks, overgrown with weed-like plantings, into a thoroughly modern, scruffily groomed oasis.

Here's a particularly complex interaction of tracks and plantings.