Lowline (New York City)

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Lowline Tech Demo 2012

The lowline is a project in the Lower East Side of New York district of Manhattan .

history

In 2011, James Ramsey and Dan Barasch planned in a disused since 1948 underground tram terminus and turning loop and a part of the underground route towards the eastern Williamsburg Bridge about three blocks from the Essex Street to Clinton Street to create an underground parking, which lowline . The name is based on the park on a former elevated railway line on the western side of Manhattan, the High Line . The disused trams can now be seen from Essex Street Station on the J , M and Z underground lines .

In 2012 the initiators were able to present the solar technology of the planned park in detail with the help of donations of US $ 150,000 from 3,300 supporters of the Kickstarter.com financing platform . In 2014 it was not yet clear how the estimated construction costs of US $ 55 million could be raised, as the owner of the station and the route, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York (MTA), will not contribute to the costs. The MTA also has its own plans for using the rooms, for example as a discotheque .

In autumn 2015, a test laboratory was set up near the Lowline, in which over 3000 plants are grown using sunlight and artificial light sources (Lowline Lab). Due to the great public interest, the experiment was extended until March 2017, while more funds are to be raised for the project in the meantime. However, the estimated costs of the project will also increase over time, with 80 million reported in mid-2016.

Technical details

Light collectors are to be used on the surface of the earth, for example on the median of Delancey Street, to collect sunlight and conduct it via fiber optic cables into the 6-meter-high garden rooms. Artificial light should be used at night and at times when the sun is obscured. The collected light directed into the basement and the artificial light ensure photosynthesis and thus the growth of the plants.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A park in the underground ruins in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from April 27, 2014, page V7 ( online version from May 6, 2014 )
  2. ^ How New York's 'Lowline' Underground Park Will Actually Work wired.com, accessed August 31, 2016

Coordinates: 40 ° 43 ′ 4.8 ″  N , 73 ° 59 ′ 13.3 ″  W.