NEW YORK CITY-The Design Trust for Public Space—the nonprofit that claims to have jumpstarted the High Line—has announced that it will work with the city's Department of Transportation to revive and animate public spaces below the city's elevated transit infrastructure.

Its Under the Elevated: Reclaiming Space, Connecting Communities campaign will engage community leaders, planners, architects, artists, and cultural organizations to develop strategies to maximize the function, use, and spatial qualities of the millions of square feet of space underneath New York City's bridges, and elevated highways, subways, and rail lines, according to the announcement.

“The sheer quantity of spaces that lie right before our eyes, unnoticed, as we New Yorkers go about our business, is staggering,” says Susan Chin, executive director, in the announcement. “NYC has nearly 700 miles of elevated infrastructure, with over 100 million square feet of underused space beneath. When you look at the impact the mile-and-a-half-long High Line has created, and then consider the potential of these spaces in neighborhoods across the five boroughs, you understand the magnitude of this undertaking.”