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11/25/11: James Ramsey ’99

By the staff | 2:03pm January 03 2012

For the past couple of years, New Yorkers have been abuzz about the High Line, a linear park built on an abandoned elevated railroad track. Now comes James Ramsey ’99 with the Low Line.

A Manhattan architect and former NASA engineer who also designs “luxury chicken residences,” Ramsey is working with tech entrepreneur Dan Barasch to turn an abandoned underground trolley terminal into a park. Officially called Delancey Underground, the proposed park would use “fiber-optic technology to channel in natural light,” the New York Times reports—“enough light, in fact, to allow photosynthesis to occur.”

“It’s a little perverse, a little like science fiction,” Ramsey says of his “remote skylight” technology. “But we realized that we have the technology to grow grass and trees underground.”

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