Residents Pushing For Highbrook Highline Park In Pelham
PELHAM, NY (AP / CBSNewYork) - If you're the metropolitan-yet-outdoorsy type, this might sound familiar.
Some residents of suburban Pelham, N.Y., want to convert an abandoned rail bed into 2 acres of parkland.
The proposed name: The Highbrook Highline.
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Manhattan's High Line elevated park opened two years ago along old railroad tracks.
Mayor Ed Hotchkiss favors increasing the amount of parkland in Pelham.
LINK: Friends of the Highbrook Highline
But he says the proposed Highbrook Highline would face a number of bureaucratic hurdles. He also says the park would have to be funded by grants and private donors - not village taxpayers.
The proposed site is on a section of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway, which shuttled commuters from 1912 to 1937. It includes a big concrete bridge.
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