Atlantic Yards Part Three: The Electric Car Shop
The Electric Car ShopMay 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.
More photographs of the space can be seen in Nate Dorr's photostream on flickr, while other photos from the railyard have been posted on this blog here and here. For more information on the controversial construction project which may cover this site, visit these resources:
- No Land Grab
- Develop, Don't Destroy Brooklyn
- The Atlantic Yards Report
- The Atlantic Yards official site
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 
4 comments:
I didn't even see the typical LIRR supervisor, somehow.
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
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
I kept thinking the same thing...
-Nate (D)
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