The High Line announced Wednesday that it had begun taking online reservations, at thehighline.org, for visits to the last undeveloped section of the rail line, between West 30th and 34th Streets, where for the next year seven sculptures by the artist Carol Bove will be on view. The High Line originally planned to charge $6 for a visit but decided on Monday to make reservations free.
The undeveloped section, sealed off behind a fence, will be fully opened to the public late next year, left in its near-wild state with only a walkway to allow visitors to walk along its length to the line’s northern end. Ms. Bove’s sculptures in steel and bronze, titled “Caterpillar,†are situated along the old rail line and its wood ties, among wild crab apple trees and grass that will grow denser through the summer. The works will “reveal themselves among the unruly vegetation like mysteriously pristine ruins of a lost civilization or a contemporary version of a Zen garden,†the High Line said in its announcement.
Reservations may be made online now for walks taking place between May 16 and July 20, the organization said. Reservations will be made available in mid-June for walks after July 20.
