19 September 2011

Lowline


Manhattan is a small island. We've found ways to accommodate its popularity: build parks up, skyscrapers, high rise apartments and taking mass transportation underground. If you live in New York City and (or) have taken the subway, you're familiar with scenes much like the above. Imagine if someone, or three in this case, created a blueprint to remodel....




As much as I enjoy the view from my roof deck, I can't help but love the idea of a subterranean park. Most subway stations are- well- kind of gross. They definitely house rats and other creepy crawlers. This is where urban entrepreneurs James Ramsey, Dan Barasch hope to mine and transform an old terminal on the Lower East Side. To be called the Delancey Underground, it's already be dubbed The Lowline. Read more at New York Magazine.

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