The MTA on Wednesday unveiled a new reimagined subway map for the first time since 1979. The new map simplifies riders' ...

but work on that has yet to begin. The High Line attracts more than eight million visitors per year, and has spurred billions of dollars of redevelopment in its midst on Manhattan's West Side.

Your heightened trip to Manhattan is just a staircase away. (For more information, Friends of the High Line, which helps maintain the park, provides maps, hours and a calendar of events ...

But Scofidio is perhaps best known for leading the design of the High Line, the park in a former elevated cargo rail track on Manhattan's far West Side. For decades, it was a rusting, off-limits ...