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The underside of Manhattan is populated mostly by impatient commuters, noisy trains, and rabid rodents, but a new project called the Lowline aims to add a new element to the New York underground.
Manhattan may soon be home to the world’s first underground park, located under the eastbound roadway of Delancey Street on the Lower East Side, near the Essex Street station. The facility is already there, and the project is endorsed by politicians and organizations alike including Manhattan Community Board 3 and the Lower East Side business improvement district. It’s estimated completion date is 2018.
The area, once used as a subway station and balloon loop for streetcars, has ceilings 20 feet high and runs along three blocks going east from Essex Street. Natural light will be directed below ground using fiber optics and remotes skylights that allow sunlight to pass through a parabolic collector
.
Light collectors would be placed at specific points above ground and then transmit wavelengths of light underground to allow plants to grow and photosynthesize. The natural light would be supplemented with artificial light at night, or when it’s cloudy.
The Lowline team already built a full scale prototype of the park in 2012 inside an abandoned warehouse on the Lower East Side. The exhibit “Imagining the Lowline” was open to the public and received widespread media coverage.
For more information on the future of the Lowline, head over to our source on Imgur. Scroll through some of the stunning photos of the park below.
(Click the Link for photos as I wasn't able to post them....simply Beautiful!_
http://firsttoknow.com/stunning-pho...d-park-new-york-city/?utm_source=facebookpage
Manhattan may soon be home to the world’s first underground park, located under the eastbound roadway of Delancey Street on the Lower East Side, near the Essex Street station. The facility is already there, and the project is endorsed by politicians and organizations alike including Manhattan Community Board 3 and the Lower East Side business improvement district. It’s estimated completion date is 2018.
The area, once used as a subway station and balloon loop for streetcars, has ceilings 20 feet high and runs along three blocks going east from Essex Street. Natural light will be directed below ground using fiber optics and remotes skylights that allow sunlight to pass through a parabolic collector
.
Light collectors would be placed at specific points above ground and then transmit wavelengths of light underground to allow plants to grow and photosynthesize. The natural light would be supplemented with artificial light at night, or when it’s cloudy.
The Lowline team already built a full scale prototype of the park in 2012 inside an abandoned warehouse on the Lower East Side. The exhibit “Imagining the Lowline” was open to the public and received widespread media coverage.
For more information on the future of the Lowline, head over to our source on Imgur. Scroll through some of the stunning photos of the park below.
(Click the Link for photos as I wasn't able to post them....simply Beautiful!_
http://firsttoknow.com/stunning-pho...d-park-new-york-city/?utm_source=facebookpage
