THINK New Year’s Eve, and New York comes to mind. Images of Times Square lit up like a disco ball, of crowds a million-strong cheering as a glittering sphere (covered in 2,688 Waterford crystals) descends into the ‘crossroads of the world’.

A section of an abandoned overhead railway line in New York City will open to the public today as a landscaped park, the first of its kind in the United States.