The People’s Climate March, which organizers estimate drew more than three hundred thousand people, came to a close at West Thirty-fourth Street and Eleventh Avenue, just about where, as it happened, the final section of the High Line park opened this weekend. The march and the park, which sits on what were, practically just the other day, rotting, abandoned railroad tracks, are both, in their ways, efforts to change how we think about the legacy of human industry—to rebuke, revise, reclaim; to have the story end differently. On Sunday, this meant that the wildflowers and grasses of the High Line were complemented, on the streets below, with hundreds of signs featuring sunflowers, and something like a continuous festival. Here, though, are four questions for after the march.
Source: The New Yorker