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Subterranean Cathedral: The Lowline

The Delancey Underground Project – a new underground Park for NY by Daniel Barasch and James Ramsey

“Reality is not always probable, or likely…” Jorge Luis Borges

In a time when most people think about the sky as the limit, and of progress as a timeline pointing further and further towards the heavens, it’s a bit difficult to get people to look down beneath their feet to see what, perhaps, might be a different future. NY has one of the most iconic skylines in the world, and in an area as densely populated as Manhattan, finding open spaces is really about finding the hidden, invisible terrains that make up the fabric of the metropolis. Think of the idea as a kind of exercise in reverse deductive logic about the dimensions of the city that are removed from plain sight, and the rest falls into place. Continued…

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