The Highline project has taken New York by storm. If you're not in New York, you might have never heard of it - it's a plan to turn an abandoned elevated railway into a linear park of sorts, and it was the dream project of practically every architect and urban planner in existence last summer. Here's a very cool flash demonstration of what it might ultimately look like.
It's also gained incredible amounts of local support and enthusiasm - I went to the unveiling of the 4 finalist designs last summer at the AIA and there were so many people there...
Today found the fist snow (that stuck) falling in Brooklyn. I snapped these shots from the Myrtle Avenue J/M train station while waiting to transfer trains to get to Manhattan's Lower East Side for an event that I will soon...