FLATLINED? WEST SIDE RAILS CLOSE TO DEMOLITION

Dreams of a park in the sky may soon be dashed. An appellate court recently lifted the restraining order that blocked the city from tearing down the High Line, the abandoned elevated railroad tracks that stretch above western Chelsea. Some local residents had hoped to see the tracks greened rather than grounded.

HOUSING AID STILL NEEDED

The city is still not providing adequate housing to homeless New Yorkers with AIDS, said a panel of judges last week, and the Bloomberg administration may soon have to pay.