James Murphy's "Subway Symphony" has been installed in The Lowline project in LES

James Murphy‘s dream of making NYC Subway turnstiles more musical has finally been realized…just not in the subways. With monetary help from Heineken, “Subway Symphony” has been installed in NYC’s billion-dollar Lowline project, an “underground park” below the Essex Market on the Lower East side. It’s still being built, but is open to the public now and you can hear the “Subway Symphony” currently on weekends. Murphy’s LCD Soundsystem bandmate Nancy Whang narrates a new Lowline promotional film, which you can watch below.

The version of the park that is open now is called The Lowline Lab, giving visitors a taste of what’s to come when it fully takes over a football field-sized abandoned trolley terminal. While being a forward-thinking project, The Lowline has also been criticized by some as a blatant attempt to raise property values on the once working class neighborhood. (Of course some see that as a plus.) Has anyone been yet?

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