U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (R) and designer Diane von Furstenberg stand on the High Line site above 14th street in New York August 4, 2005. It was announced on Thursday that the High Line site, which was built as an elevated railroad in the 1930's and was last used for freight in 1980, will receive $18 million in federal funding with a proposed groundbreaking for a public park to start in the end of 2005. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton