A few collected links about the Hudson Railyards, which was pictured behind Alison on our High Line jaunt and is the proposed site of a massive development project:

• New York City’s project page for “Far West Midtown” (known to the rest of us New Yorkers as either Hell’s Kitchen or Clinton), explaining the opportunities represented by the neighborhood and laying out a framework for development;
• the official site of the New York City 2012 Olympic bid, including a venue and transport plan that includes a new stadium over the Railyards, as well as an expanded convention center venue, shopping centers, hotels, and a new mass transit center;
• a perspective piece from New York Metro, describing the Olympic bid as a catalyst for the development not only of the Railyards, but also of other neglected areas of the five boroughs, all on a scale comparable to Robert Moses’s makeover of the New York metropolitan area;
• a Gotham Gazette article that, in part, describes the NYC2012 plan for financing the Hell’s Kitchen redevelopment, Tax Increment Financing (selling bonds that are used to develop the land, and paying them off with the anticipated increase in property values and tax revenue);
• the other side of the Olympic Stadium argument, from the always-awesome hellskitchen.net;
• a proposition by Virginia Fields (PDF), Manhattan Borough President, to turn the entire tract into a series of parks, low-density housing, schools, and office space (e.g., a neighborhood);
• lastly, a competition, sponsored by Friends of the High Line, to design the public park space that will sprout from the abandoned railbed that runs around the Railyard and down into Greenwich Village.