it was under the giuliani administration and they had already taken the position that they wanted to take it down. they didn't want to reconsider so ultimately we had to sue the city of new york under the giuliani administration to stop the highline's demolition. so that was a lot... a big piece of our early years and the formative part of our organization was coming together to save it from the wrecking ball. >> rose: and the last act... one of the last acts of the giuliani administration was to order the demolition ( >> one of the fina days he signed a demolition agreement binding the city to demolition. >> and how did the photographer come into being and what role did he shea from >> we fell in love from the high mine frothe street, the steel structure in this this ruin. but when we went up there there was a mile and a half of wild flowers and it was aust position of the wild and the city but it wasn't open to the public. so we knew we needed to capture it. so we got a wonderful artist named joel stern felde to photograph it. in the course of 2000, 2001, he took pictures all throu