About Annik La Farge

I’m a lifelong New Yorker and lover of the city’s parks. When I was born my family lived on 106th Street and Riverside Drive. We played in the park every weekend and I remember my father taking us down to the old railway tracks along the Hudson River where we would hunt for all kind of treasures. Today there’s a park there too — Hudson River Park — and a giant locomotive from the New York Central Line sits at around 62nd Street. When I was six we moved to the east side, just a block from Central Park. Since returning from college I’ve lived all over the city, including in the West Village and on the Upper West Side, across the street (again) from Central Park, but this time in a position to catch the sun rising, not setting, across the treeline. Today I live just a stone’s throw from the High Line, a totally different — but completely enchanting — park where freight trains of the New York Central also ran, between 1934 and 1980. For information about my book, On the High Line: Exploring America’s Most Original Urban Park, visit the companion website. For a full professional bio visit TheAuthorOnline.com. And to read articles about subjects not related to the High Line, see the Articles page.