Take the high road

NEW YORK — Until the 1930s, freight trains heading to Manhattan's Bell Laboratories Building and the Nabisco Plant operated on street-level tracks. Unfortunately, they caused so many accidents that 10th Aveue had been known as "Death Avenue."

In the 1930s, New York Central Railroad opened the elevated High Line for freight traffic to cut through the center of blocks and connect directly to factories and warehouses. The railroads abandoned the tracks in 1980, but the city has reopened a portion as an elevated park running through the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen.

Is this the nation's only park that prohibits jogging, biking and pets?

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