diane von furstenberg, she has contributed $2535 million to the high line project as part of the diller von furstenberg family foundation. joshua david, co-founder of friends of the high line and robert hammond also co-founder of friends of the high line. i am pleased to have them. they are my friends here. and this is a wonderful, wonderful public space that people who come to new york want to see it, walk on it and experience the experience of being there. why is that? why do people so love this place? what is magical about it? >> one of the most extraordinary things about it is it's elevated. it runs for a mile and a half connected three manhattan neighborhoods and when you walk on it you're floating among the roof tops but you're still... low roof tops, just 23 feet in the air. but you're still connected to the streets. and the plas. it is a magical garden in the sky and it's planted to be this linear ribbon that goes for a mile a a half and you can walk on it without coming in contact with a single vehicle. so it's a connector. it's a wild dynamic landscape like no other. >> rose: