Nobody wants to hang out in a dark space that doesn't serve booze, a problem that the Battery Park City Authority is facing with the construction of Teardrop Park, currently a vacant lot crammed into a valley between skyscrapers. So instead of just accepting the laws of light and shadow as inevitable fact, the Authority is attacking the quandary with a Mr. Burns-like zeal and attempting to thwart Apollo by harnessing that which gives us heat and life. The Times reports that three $355,000 heliostats—big metal salad bowls that redirect sunlight—were installed on the roof of a new 23-story building that overlooks the future park site. The computer-controlled dishes will even be able to point blinding beams of light at specific benches or trees, making you susceptible to an easy punking while trying to breeze through US Weekly on a lunch break.
· Here Comes the Sun, Redirected [NYTimes]
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