{"id":9656,"date":"2011-09-27T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/plans-unveiled-for-two-acre-underground-park-in-new-york-city\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:56:06","slug":"plans-unveiled-for-two-acre-underground-park-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/plans-unveiled-for-two-acre-underground-park-in-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans Unveiled for Two-Acre Underground Park in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Artist rendition of Delancey Underground <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since it first opened in 2009, visitors arriving on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-new-york-city-nyc-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flights to New York City<\/a><\/strong> have flocked to <strong>High Line Park<\/strong>, a green space located along a one-mile stretch of an abandoned elevated railroad track. Now developers in <strong>New York City<\/strong> are planning another unorthodox park, this time underground.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Delancey Underground, affectionately dubbed the \u201cLow Line\u201d is a proposed two-acre park that would transform an abandoned trolley terminal beneath Delancey Street on the Lower East Side into a functioning green space complete with an expansive lawn, benches, and reflecting pools.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The park would use state-of-the-art solar technology to filter in sunlight from above to allow subterranean plant growth without exposing visitors to harmful ultraviolet and infrared rays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ambitious underground oasis is still in the theoretical stages but already has New Yorkers buzzing with excitement. Initial plans were reportedly greeted with a warm reception at a recent community board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The property is currently owned by the <strong>MTA<\/strong>, which has been discussing the project with developers, according to <em>New York Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2042254\/New-York-Citys-Low-Line-Plans-create-2-acre-underground-park.html?ito=feeds-newsxml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Mail <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Artist rendition of Delancey Underground &nbsp; Since it first opened in 2009, visitors arriving on flights to New York City have flocked to High Line Park, a green space located along a one-mile stretch of an abandoned elevated railroad track. Now developers in New York City are planning another unorthodox park, this time underground. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97201619,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions\/97201619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}