In the second installation of our new series, NYC Makers, we profile Dan Barasch, Co-Founder of The Lowline and the author of the newly published Ruin and Redemption in Architecture from Phaidon. The Lowline is the plan to transform the abandoned New York City trolley terminal on the Lower East Side into the world’s first underground …
MoreWe’ve been following the Lowline project for several years and the organization is one of our partners in our tour, the Past, Present and Future of the NYC Subway, which provides docent-led access to the Lowline Lab. In July, the Lowline received city approval a little less than four years after the project began. The Lo-Down …
MoreThe Lowline, the world’s first underground park, just got official NYC approval. Take a tour of the Lowline Lab with a docent on our upcoming subway tour.
MoreOur upcoming exploration tour of the NYC subway system goes from past to present, to the future – at the Lowline Lab with a tour led by the docents.
MoreA sneak preview inside the Lowline Lab, a 1,100-square-foot mock-up of the underground park, open every weekend starting tomorrow at 140 Essex Street in NYC.
MoreThe Lowline Lab has been working to replicate what plant life will be able to exist on the Lower East Side’s proposed Lowline. See their work starting Oct. 17.
MoreThe Lowline has launched a Kickstarter to fund the Lowline Lab, researching to build the world’s first underground park in NYC below Delancey Street.
MoreThe Lowline, NYC’s first subterranean park, opens up design ideas to middle school students on the Lower East Side at the Mark Miller Gallery.
MoreOur most popular list on Foursquare is our Abandoned NYC list. Some places are break-in-able, some open to the public, some only for the intrepid.
MoreThe Lowline cofounder Dan Barasch visited the Brooklyn Futurist Meetup last Wednesday to spell out 10 guiding principles for the world’s first underground park.
MoreInstallation at the “Imagining the Lowline” exhibit in 2012
What happens when a team of urban entrepreneurs partners with several bars in the Lower East Side? They come up with a new way to engage small businesses and residents to support the construction of New York’s first underground park known as the Lowline. If you order an “Absolut Lowline” cocktail …
MoreA look into the abandoned underground trolley tunnel that’s the proposed location for the Lowline park, hidden in plain sight at the Essex/Delancey stop in NYC
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