Robert Hammond: Building a Park in the Sky
New York was planning to tear down the High Line, an abandoned elevated railroad in Manhattan, when Robert Hammond and a few friends suggested: Why not make it a park? He shares how it happened in this tale of local cultural activism.
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ABOUT Robert Hammond
“The co-founder of Friends of the High Line, Robert helped lead the effort to build an elevated park on an abandoned railway line in Manhattan.
He’s worked as a consultant for a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors and non profits, including the Times Square Alliance, Alliance for the Arts and National Cooperative Bank (NCB).
Robert is also a self-taught artist. From 2002 to 2005 he served as an Ex-Officio Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in 2009.”
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