Friday, February 24, 2012

The Delancey Underground's Kickstarter campaign

On Wednesday night, the fellows behind the plan to build a park in an abandoned trolley station below Delancey Street (the Low Line or the Delancey Underground) launched a Kickstarter campaign.

Their goal is to raise to raise $100,000 to fund a large-scale demo of technology they developed to transport sunlight underground, as The Lo-Down noted. (You can find the Kickstarter page here.)

There's a video explaining all the particulars on the Kickstarter page...



Several people have pointed out one moment in the video... at the 25-second mark ... the line about the Lower East Side being "full of culture and history ..." is set to an image of the now-demolished Mars Bar...


Previously on EV Grieve:
Day trippers: Picture yourself in a park under Delancey
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4 comments:

  1. nygrumpFebruary 24, 2012 at 10:22 AM

    Will they go through our backpacks like they do when we go to governor's island? Will this provide a security function as well as a recreatuonal function?

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  2. Hey19February 24, 2012 at 3:37 PM

    This is pretty cool, I am going to check out the kickstarter this weekend. Cool idea

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2012 at 3:39 PM

    who knew there that much empty space there? is there more about the trolley barns?

    I-)

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2012 at 3:43 PM

    the idea is not so odd - montreal has a second downtown that is underground.

    I-)

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