---
title: "World’s first underground park will redirect sunlight using fiber optics"
description: "With two weeks left to go in its crowdfunding campaign, the Lowline has already raised over $100,000 from over 1,000 backers, promising to turn an old trolley station in Manhattan into the Earth's ..."
date: "2015-06-26"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Nate Brown"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/natebrown"
url: "https://futurism.com/worlds-first-underground-park-will-redirect-sunlight-using-fiber-optics"
categories:
  - "Energy"
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "energy"
---

# World’s first underground park will redirect sunlight using fiber optics

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- The Lowlinehas already raised over $100,000 from over 1,000 backers, promising to turn an old trolley station in Manhattan into the Earth’s first underground park.
- The design by Raad Studio is supported by a custom lighting technology being developed specifically for this project, specifically: a “remote skylight” combinating solar harvesting and fiber optics to pipe daylight directly down into the subterranean spaces and paths of the park below.
- Built over a century ago but abandoned for over 50 years, this 40,000-square-foot Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal is in remarkably good shape despite years of neglect.