By Nicole Breskin
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
CHELSEA — The next section of the High Line is on track for a spring 2011 opening, a spokesman for the park tells DNAinfo.
The park’s second stretch — running from 20th to 30th streets — was slated to open later this year after the initial section debuted last summer, but Parks Department and High Line officials said that date could be pushed as late as next summer.
A spokesperson for the nonprofit Friends of the High Line, which oversees maintenance and management of the park, said construction was now on track for a spring 2011 finish.
Currently crews are installing railroad tracks that will form paths and are planting beds in what will be the “Chelsea Thicket,” a leafy area between West 20th and 22nd Streets, Friends of the High Line said in a newsletter sent to subscribers this week.
The next step is to install a draining system below the soil in that area, followed by pathways to be built farther.
