The Delancey Underground project seeks to transform an abandoned trolley terminal into New York City's first underground community green space. Beneath one of the least green areas of the city, the Lower East Side, lies a massive, unused space nearly the size of Gramercy Park. This project envisions using an advanced solar technology to channel sunlight underground, enabling plants and trees to grow. That could be the first step to major regeneration plans in cities around the world.

An extraordinary subterranean public park -nichnamed the "LowLine", was inspired by the amazing impact of the High Line, local businesses, residents, community leaders, and political stakeholders alike have voiced considerable enthusiasm for the idea. 

But the Delancey Underground is more than an economic revitalization opportunity -it also represents cutting edge design and a new generation of green technology. It is at the heart of a broder global discussion about the potential of remnant urban infrastructure, and the need for cities to re-invent the meaning of space -above and below ground. The project also envisions a fresh approach to solar technology -using innovative fiber optics to reflect light underground, saving electricity and reducing carbon emissions, and generating the capacity for plants, trees, and grasses to thrive indoors. 

The "LowLine" is essentially part of the next phase in urban design, in which human scale and increasing resource scarcity force us to imagine smarter, more creative use of public spaces.

What else to say? Simply magnificent!

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