Dan Barasch
Co-Founder, The Lowline
The 4 Coolest High Line Inspired Projects
“ The Delancey Underground ” – New York City, New York As the Highline has everyone looking up, James Ramsey and Dan Barasch are asking people to start looking down. Satellite engineer turned architect, James Ramsey has developed a fiber-optic technology that will naturally light and ... Read more »
Lowline Generates Excitement, Despite Lingering Concerns About Cost
Dan Barasch and James Ramsey hope to change that. They’ve proposed a plan to turn the space into the Delancey Underground, the city’s first subterranean park. “The proposal is particularly attractive because the space isn’t anything right now -- it’s a 60,000-square-foot hotel for rats,” ... Read more »
Bringing Sunlight to Light an Underground Garden
" Dan Barasch and James Ramsey envisioned it all in 2008 when they teamed up with an idea to transform an abandoned trolley terminal, a 1.5-acre lot underneath the Williamsburg Bridge and next to the Delancey St. subway station. They dubbed their underground park the "Lowline," a nod to ... Read more »
LowLine Creators Reach Initial Fundraising Goal On Kickstarter
Dan Barasch and James Ramsey have secured the initial funds for the LowLine, an underground park on Manhattan's Lower East Side. While they lack the generous $20 million that the Diller-von-Furstenberg Foundation donated to the High Line, the group's Kickstarter page shows that they’ve ... Read more »
The Lowline: A Proposed Underground Park in Manhattan : The New Yorker
) The Lowline concept, developed by Dan Barasch (formerly of PopTech) and James Ramsey of RAAD Studio, is to take one of the M.T.A.’s abandoned stations—the old Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal, which opened in 1903 and closed in 1948, after streetcars stopped running—and turn it ... Read more »
Fiber Optic Technology Could Bring Sunlight to NYC's Underground Park : TreeHugger
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Delancey Underground, the proposed park beneath New York's Lower East Side, is the way James Ramsey and Dan Barasch plan to light it. A system of fiber optic cables would collect sunlight above ground and funnel it down into the abandoned ... Read more »
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11), 8:30 p.m. @ Lilium at the W Hotel, 201 Park Ave S. Speakers include Neil Blumenthal (Warby Parker), Julius Marchwicki (Ford), Abigail Posner (Google), Dan Barasch (Lowline), Benjamin Dyett (Grind) and others. Friday (Apr. 12), 9 a.m. @ Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place ... Read more »
Proposed ‘Lowline’ park would create underground oasis in NYC
The founders of the park plan, architect James Ramsey and Dan Barasch, have built a full-scale model of what they're calling the Lowline, a park in an abandoned subway station below Delancey street. To give New Yorkers a sense of what a subterranean play area would be like, the ... Read more »
How Will the Lowline Make the Leap From Idea to Reality?
Since Dan Barasch and James Ramsey unveiled their plans for an innovative underground park, the project, known as the Lowline, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, gained the support of government officials, and won the hearts of many local residents. But how will the Lowline ... Read more »
Dan Barasch: Rethinking Public Space With The Lowline Park [PSFK 2013]
Dan Barasch is the co-founder of The Lowline, an underground park on New York’s Lower East Side. He spoke to PSFK about the project and how transforming hidden urban spaces can change the attitude of a city. You will be speaking about The Lowline at a conference April 12. What inspired ... Read more »
Dan Barasch: How The Lowline Is Reinventing What We Think About Public Space [PSFK 2013]
Dan Barasch is the co-founder of The Lowline, an underground park on New York’s Lower East Side. He spoke to PSFK about the project and how to transforming hidden urban spaces can change the attitude of a city. You will be speaking about The Lowline at a conference April 12. What ... Read more »
Beyond the High Line: Transforming the Lowline, September 10
Dan Barasch and James Ramsey, founders of the Delancey Undergroud Project, will discuss their plans to turn the Williamsburg Trolley Terminal (under Delancey Street) into 60,000 square feet of public, green space, immune to the ills of the cold, rain and snow. Plans include space for ... Read more »
Examining Six High Line Park Copycats Around the Globe
↑ And it all comes back to New York, where architect James Ramsey and fellow New Yorker Dan Barasch crafted bold plans for the Lowline, an underground park proposed for the former Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal, a three-block-long space below the Lower East Side's Delancey Street. ... Read more »
Should the Lowline Space Be Used for Transit, Not a Park?
Since James Ramsey and Dan Barasch unveiled their idea for the Lowline in an abandoned trolley terminal, the public has largely jumped behind the plan. The Journal even put forth the idea that the park could boost property values in the Lower East Side, but Kabak wonders if the space ... Read more »
Curbed Awards '12: Adventures in Urban Planning
Ever since Dan Barasch and James Ramsey announced their idea for the Lowline, the underground park has been a constant topic of conversation in New York Citynevermind the fact that it's no where near becoming a reality. This year, the team raised a crapload of money, created sunlight ... Read more »
The Future Looks Hopeful For New York's Proposed Underground Park
In fact, the project's founders, Dan Barasch and James Ramsey, are planning to build the park in an abandoned subway station. People obviously love outlandish ideas, as the pair was able to surpass their Kickstarter goal by $50,000, raising $155,000 of crowd-sourced funding. For the Low ... Read more »
Exhibit provides glimpse into proposed underground park – NY City Lens
“Most New Yorkers associate the underground as an unnecessarily dirty and an unsexy place,” said LowLine co-founder Dan Barasch said, “but I think we have the possibility to do something different.” “What our park provides is a space that might even be usable and friendly on cold, wintry ... Read more »
Next Hurdle Cleared for Lowline in NYC New York City
He has taken his idea and partnered with Dan Barasch to create the Lowline, a park planned completely underground in the former Williamsburg Trolley Terminal, which has been abandoned since 1948. “One of the great strengths of the overall concepts is that in some respects it is an ... Read more »
How a Kickstarter Proposal For an Underground Park Raised $100,000 In One Week
Dan Barasch, who has worked on social innovation at PopTech, Google, UNICEF, and the 9/11 Survivors' Fund, as well as within city government, and James Ramsey, the owner and founder of RAAD Studio, a NYC design practice, and a former NASA engineer, have proposed turning an unused trolley ... Read more »
What if the Low Line space were still transit? :: Second Ave. Sagas
On a practical matter, Dan Barasch and James Ramsey, the Low Line advocates, had the ear of Jay Walder for a bit of time in late 2011, but the MTA is soon to be two heads removed from Walder. They’re trying to generate public support that will force the MTA’s hand, but any near-term ... Read more »
