Hudson Yards Public Square and Gardens

You are standing on a massive engineering marvel that functions as a sophisticated, high-tech lid. Beneath your feet, hundreds of active Long Island Rail Road tracks continue to operate, hidden from view. Because the trains generate extreme heat that can reach one hundred and fifty degrees, this entire garden sits atop a complex cooling system. Tubes embedded within the concrete platform circulate liquid to keep the tree roots from overheating, while a network of fifteen industrial fans, similar to those found in jet engines, blasts fresh air through the tracks below at forty-five miles per hour.