The underground park proposal has already attracted the attention of city officials, urban planners and developers as far as London, Moscow, Paris and Seoul, South Korea. The New York City Economic Development Corporation, which oversees the city-owned site, has given the Underground Development Foundation until July to submit a detailed design and raise at least $10 million, among other things. As the two talked about creating an underground park, people started calling it “the Lowline.” The name stuck. Last year, a second Kickstarter campaign raised $225,000 for a demonstration lab on Essex Street a few blocks from the underground terminal. Mr. Barasch said the lab had shown that people were ready for an underground park.

Source: New York Times October 07, 2016 18:04 UTC