Lowline

Visitors from around the world are drawn to New York City’s High Line, an elevated park built on defunct railroad tracks transformed into an urban sanctuary of flowers, grasses, and trees.

What was so unusual about a particular tree on the Lower East Side that for the past two weekends, it drew nearly 10,000 New Yorkers to it?

The idea of utilizing 1.5 acres of vacant space next to the Essex Street subway station for an underground park is moving forward with a month long preview called Let there be light, exhibited at Mark Miller’s gallery in the Lower East Side.

The LowLine project, which seeks to utilize abandoned space for an underground park next to the Essex Street subway station on the Lower East Side, has raised more than $136,000 for a demonstration of the technology created to reflect sunlight below ground.