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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/proposed-lowline-park-create-underground-oasis-nyc-195613679.html

Ramsey's office is not far from the defunct trolley terminal, their proposed site. The underground space, built in 1903, hasn't been touched since 1948 and includes details such as granite cobblestones, rail tracks and vaulted ceilings. Because the park would be indoors, lighting becomes an obvious challenge. To get around that, the park co-creators invented a technology to bring natural light underground. The technology, called a "remote skylight," captures natural sunlight from the surface and then channels it underground through fiber-optic cable, generating enough light to grow plants, trees and grass, even underground. The park presentation shows a lush oasis...