In a forgotten corner of the New York City underground, Dan Barasch and James Ramsey are growing pineapples. “It’s ripe,” Ramsey said, examining a fist-size pineapple nestled between thyme, sage and dozens of other plants. “One bite of pineapple.”
These plants are the first step toward New York City’s first underground park — the Lowline, a project that has been in development for seven years.
The park, which is planned to open in 2020, will be housed beneath Delancey St. in New York City in a 60,000 square foot trolley station that was built in 1903, according to Barasch, the Lowline’s co-founder and executive director. The station served as a turn-around point for trolley cars running between Manhattan from Brooklyn over the Williamsburg Bridge, but stopped operating in 1948.
