Manhattan’s public park space could be expanded by two acres by three green space visionaries – architect James Ramsey, PopTech executive Dan Barasch, and money manager R. Boykin Curry IV.
Transforming a 60 year old disused trolley terminal on the Lower East Side into an enormous underground greenspace dubbed the Delancey Underground (already nicknamed the Low Line, comparing favorably with Manhattan’s High Line green space that was created on an elevated old freight railway line by Joshua David and Robert Hammond).
The idea is built around using “remote skylights” to bring filtered sunlight underground via fiber-optic cables, and filtering out harmful ultraviolet and infrared light but leaving light wavelengths used for photosynthesis for plants. Lamppost-like solar collectors on Delancey Street would feed the lighst underground.
The Manhattan MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) are onboard, though won’t provide funds, and the local community are being asked to support the underground park.
Visit: http://delanceyunderground.org/
Via NYMag & Architizer
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