The world's first underground park, New York City

It all started with an old train station. This train station is 116 years old.

The area, with ceilings 20 feet (6.1 m) high, extends three blocks east from Essex Street to Clinton Street and was used until 1948 as a station and balloon loop for streetcars crossing the Williamsburg Bridge to and from Brooklyn.

Natural light will be directed below ground using fiber optics—called  “remote skylights” to provide an area in which trees and grass will be grown beneath the city street

The idea is to create the first, living, underground park.

This is how it is designed to work.

Although the majority of the lighting would be coming from above ground, there would be artificial lighting at night and when the sun is obscured by clouds.

This amazing and unique project has been endorsed by politicians and local organizations across the city.

If everything goes according to plan, the new park will be open for the public in 2018.