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unsung corridor. through March 31.

Easement. A right of use over the property of another....The easement was normally for the benefit of adjoining lands, no matter who the owner was (an easement appurtenant), rather than for the benefit of a specific individual (easement in gross). Easements frequently arise among owners of adjoining parcels of land. Common examples of easements include the right of a property owner who has no street front to use a particular segment of a neighbor's land to gain access to the road, as well as the right of a Municipal corporation to run a sewer line across a strip of an owner's land, which is frequently called a right of way.
Easements can be conveyed from one individual to another by will, deed, or contract, which must comply with the Statute of Frauds and can be inherited pursuant to the laws of Descent and Distribution.
An easement is a nonpossessory interest in another's land that entitles the holder only to the right to use such land in the specified manner.
An easement appurtenant attaches to the land permanently and benefits its owner. In order for it to exist, there must be two pieces of land owned by different individuals. One piece, the dominant estate or tenement, is the land that is benefited by the easement. The other piece, known as the servient estate or tenement, is the land that has the burden of the easement. An easement appurtenant is a Covenant running with the land since it is incapable of a separate and independent existence from the land to which it is annexed. A common example would be where one landowner—A—is the owner of land that is separated from a road by land owned by B. If B sells A a right of way across his or her land, it is a right that is appurtenant to A's land and can only be used in connection thereof.
An easement in gross is not appurtenant to any estate in land. It arises when a servient piece of land exists without a dominant piece being affected.
There are various ways in which easements are created. An express easement is clearly stated in a contract, deed, or will. An easement by implication occurs when the owner of a piece of land divides such land into smaller pieces and sells a smaller piece to another person, retaining a right to enter such piece of land.

When will construction start on Phase 1 of the Rail Park?

deRailed Park. construction not slated-never was. it's an easement already. unfundable, out of phase, and born merely as one ingredient in a recipe to levy a surtax on property owners in the Chinatown North-Callowhill Community. Move on.

planphilly.com Creating a linear park out of the whole Reading Viaduct and City Branches may be a long way off, but last year hopes were…

WHO owns the Reading Viaduct? Who controls what?

Phil says 6 more weeks of winter. All Aboard in Punxsutawney! Behind Baldwins from Broad & Spring Garden, built 1907

☞ VIADUCTgreene, a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation, founded in 2010 cultivates a bottom-up interest in the site and all its extraordinary 3-miles of potential. VIADUCTgreene works toward sponsoring a International Ideas Competition that considers the site in its 3-mile entirety, carefully considered phasing of the project, also in its 3-mile entirety, respect and for and celebration of, Philadelphia’s extraordinary and virtually unrecognized proud industrial heritage; its stories told by, and sensed so palpably throughout the entire place.
Also, we know an easement when we see one!

What’s Modern Now? Less is More and Too Much is Never Enough. pI – VIADUCTgreene

what do Piet Oudolf, MoMa, Karl Lagerfeld, Peter Marino, Laurie Olin, Thomas the Tank Engine and Hauser & Wirth have in common?

viaductgreene.org The recent pickle over the The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s Tod Williams and Billie Tsien designed former Folk Art Museum facade along Manhattan’s 53rd Street leads to wonder. What’s Modern now? It’s sad people aren’t speaking. Sad people believe M0MA’s move to remove designed by Diller, Scofiidi...

What's wrong with an ugly winter garden?

ahhh the winter garden

theguardian.com Garden look grim in January? Stop beating yourself up, writes Lucy Masters, every plot needs some downtime

ahhh the winter garden

"You can't get too much winter in the winter."--Robert Frost. (Or can you?) Happy Friday, everyone.

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29. January. 1893 “The Reading Railroad Company’s new station at Twelfth and Market streets was opened to the public and the first train out of the depot started at 4 o’clock on Sunday morning for Harrisburg, Pottsville, and Shamokin. Several hundred people were on the train and as many more were in the station and cheered as the engine drew out Superintendent Brown who has charge of the new station ran the engine as far as Girard Avenue and then relinquished the lever to engineer Michael Welsh who with his fireman William Orth ran the train through to its destination. The train was in charge of conductor Fulton Jones baggage master Daniel J Hines and brakeman Francis P Condon. The first train to enter the station was No 126, the Reading accommodation, due at 7:50 from Reading. The crew consisted of conductor Howard Richards, fireman Frank Genser baggage master Michael Gillen, and brakemen Horace Baus and George W Snyder, and engineer Patrick Cassidy. A large crowd was gathered to welcome it. In the station was a large floral horseshoe sent by an admirer of the road. During the day hundreds of excursionists came in from the country to have a look at the new station. In the afternoon President McLeod paid a visit and expressed himself pleased with all the arrangements.

The prairie gardener's lament - Telegraph

"...despite the confusion of brown foliage, I will be sad to see it go."

telegraph.co.uk New perennials might be all the rage but they hate a mild winter

Fruits of the Loom

A century ago, there were more than 800 businesses related to textile manufacturing in Philadelphia alone; today there are around a hundred.

nytimes.com The nearly lost art of American textile manufacturing.

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall... Checkerboard Films.

Enjoy a vision of spring by photographer Joan Garvin. She captured this image last March during High Line Spring Cutback, an annual horticulture effort that involves trimming back more than 100,000 plants along our park. Would you like to volunteer for this year's Spring Cutback? Learn how: http://bit.ly/1asZAuN

de Luxe. extra fine. extra fast. extra fare. – VIADUCTgreene

Public-Private. Nothing new under the sun.

viaductgreene.org Inside the deep, atmospheric, and deeply atmospheric, Inside Llewyn Davis, written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, is a memorable scene at Abraham Lincoln ‘Oasis’ Fred Harvey restaurant on, make that over, the Tri-State Tollway in South Holland, Illinois. Set in the ’60′s it’s a USA that left…

Photographer was pioneer in color photography as an art form

you probably know about The High Line. Robert Hammond and Josh David's vision for a "bottom-up" approach (the kind Robt. Moses would have hated) got a huge boost with photographer Joel Sternfeld's moody images; "when he began shooting color in the 1970s, "color photography really wasn't considered an acceptable medium of fine art photography."

post-gazette.com Joel Sternfeld's cameras and color sense have taken him around the world, photographing New York City's High Line before it became a destination, Italy's famed Roman Campagna and more than 40 experimental utopian communities in the United States. Twenty-nine of Mr. Sternfeld's utopian community imag...

gravelblog. by ryan gravel.

do you know about the Atlanta BeltLine - Official Fan Page?Ryan Gravel's 1999 master’s thesis in Architecture and City Planning at Georgia Tech was the original vision for the 22-mile long project. Here's a link to his blog...

gravelblog.com more than the beltline. the infrastructure of our lives.

commute. 1. com·mute verb \kə-ˈmyüt\ : to travel regularly to and from a place and especially between where you live and where you work

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PARK HERE! above Spring Garden Street. 1960s

Brooklyn Botanical Garden Visitor Center Wins Premier Architecture Award

"...a living interface that creates an invitation from the city into the garden — a demonstration of the compelling reciprocity between architecture and landscape,”

commercialobserver.com Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Visitor Center has won the 2014 American Institute of Architects’ Institute Honor Award for architecture. The Weiss/Manfredi-designed 20,000-square-foot center, a blend of architecture and landscape design, was a key component of BBG’s major renewal efforts launched in conc...

Ambler. milepost 17.3. home of School of Environmental Design, Temple University. host of the New Directions in the American Landscape Conference, bringing together some of the greatest thinkers/practitioners in the landscape design field. Thinking 'greene.

Community splits over casino cash

Tower pledges "to pay the North Broad Community Coalition $90,000 to cover legal fees for Kevin Greenberg, the lawyer hired by the coalition to look out for the neighborhood's interests." -the "same law firm representing the Isle of Capri, the company that will operate" the casino.

philly.com Neighbors of a proposed casino for Broad and Callowhill streets aren't sure a deal to win their agreement is the right path.

Manayunk Bridge ready for its makeover

"We support any project which increases pedestrian and bicycyle facilities in our region, especially in the vicinity of our stations," said Liz Smith, manager of long range planning at SEPTA.

philly.com The transformation of the Manayunk Bridge into a sweeping bicycle and pedestrian trail, high above the Schuylkill River, is one step closer to fruition as the City solicits construction bids this month.

Things YOU can do – VIADUCTgreene

YOU!

viaductgreene.org Learn about our directed goals and ambitions as being the best possible stewards of the site. If something stands out for you, please contact us so we may connect you with others.

The Barnes Foundation - The Emergent City—Transforming the Urban Experience with Dynamic Landscapes

Philadelphia. The emergent city.

barnesfoundation.org With cities across the country and abroad seeking to be greener, more vibrant, and more livable, innovative landscape initiatives play a seminal role. From New York City's High Line to post-industrial European cities, this presentation explores strategies to address environmental and cultural intere...

Is horticulture a withering field?

"We need to make it sexier and more relevant in a highly competitive market," said Paul B. Redman, director of Longwood Gardens"

articles.philly.com Coming from image-conscious professionals who prefer to gush about the beauty of flowers and the joys of growing vegetables, the words were downright shocking: "Horticulture is under siege." They...

Ambitious Redesign of MoMA Doesn’t Spare Notable Neighbor

What's Modern Now? "...opening of its entire first floor, including the beloved sculpture garden, free to the public."

nytimes.com The Museum of Modern Art unveiled a sweeping redesign of its Midtown building and reaffirmed its intention to demolish the former American Folk Art Museum.

VIADUCTgreene's cover photo

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Kids love visiting the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania! Although schools are closed in our area today due to the relentless “polar vortex” we are experiencing, you can still plan a Museum school group tour, merit badge workshop or other education program. Just contact one of the Museum educators! http://www.rrmuseumpa.org/education/index.shtml (Craig Benner Photo, Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, PHMC)

Architecture in 2014: singing bins, talking pavements and skygardens

"...swathes of our cities are recast as privately-owned corporate enclaves to which we, the public, are generously granted access. The rise of Business Improvement Districts will see more armies of branded wardens, guardians and cleanliness officers patrolling the public realm in 2014, providing the services increasingly cut by local councils, and only accountable to the self-elected group of businesses that pay their wages."

theguardian.com From crime-fighting lampposts to garden cities, Oliver Wainwright charts the architecture trends that await us in 2014

Logan Square apartment complex seeks major expansion

not the location of the locomotive builder, though...Matthias Baldwin Park (which, according to...Mark Focht, deputy commissioner of the Department of Parks and Recreation), is actually a piece of public art, designed by artist Athena Tacha, and installed in 1992.

philly.com Museum Towers, a 300-unit apartment complex near 18th and Spring Garden streets, in Logan Square, is set to nearly double in size, under a plan discussed Tuesday afternoon at a meeting of Philadelphia’s Civic Design Review Committee.

Crisp! Reading's Crusader. two daily round trips to New York over the 9th Street Branch. except sundays.

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The Gardened Railway pII. – VIADUCTgreene

viaductgreene.org THE service which the railroad is capable of performing in the development of horticultural taste and knowledge is considerable. Every inhabitant of a town visits the railroad station and if the town is in the neighborhood of a city a considerable portion ofthe population passes through the station…