Atlantic Yards Part Three: The Electric Car Shop

The Electric Car Shop
May 22, 2007 -

Underneath Atlantic Avenue is an abandoned "Electric Car Shop." Used to repair Long Island Railroad trains, it sits in the footprint of the Atlantic Yards development site, inside the Vanderbilt Railyards. Empty lunch rooms, abandoned offices, ransacked archives, all with the lights still on. The train yard and nearby tunnels are still in use by the Long Island Railroad, but this shop seems to have been empty for years.

Other photos from the railyard have been posted on this blog here and here. More photographs of this space were also taken by Nate Dorr. For more information on this controversial construction project, visit these resources:


In the Trench



Eat Me



Graffiti:"Typical LIRR Supervisor"



Abandoned Lunch Room



New Bulletins



Shopping Cart in the Trench



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Rail


The Long Shop



Red Windows



View from a Window: Wards Bakery

posted by Nathan Kensinger

5 comments:

  1. NateMay 21, 2007 at 11:45 PM

    I didn't even see the typical LIRR supervisor, somehow.

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  2. AnonymousMay 22, 2007 at 4:19 AM

    Hi Nate.
    Cool pics again, as always. Looks like everything above the ground has been pretty much discovered......so now you're on a underground trip.
    Very cool.

    Petra

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  3. AnonymousMay 22, 2007 at 10:29 AM

    Who Killed the Electric Car...shop?

    These are awesome Nate. I love all the different temperature lights.

    I can't help thinking of the breakrooms in "Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks"

    -MOH

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  4. NateMay 22, 2007 at 12:44 PM

    I kept thinking the same thing...

    -Nate (D)

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