Nathan Kensinger Photography: The Atlantic Yards

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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

Rail

The Long Shop

Red Windows

View from a Window: Wards Bakery

The Atlantic Yards, Part Two

April 25, 2007 -

This second set of photographs from the Atlantic Yards development site moves deeper into the Long Island Railway tunnels underneath Atlantic Avenue. This train yard, its tunnels, an abandoned train repair shop and large parts of the surrounding neighborhood may soon be covered by a massive new development. Additional photos from the Vanderbilt Railyards can be seen here, and in this set of photos from the abandoned Electric Car Shop.

Train Approaching

Tunnel Floor

Tracks

Exit

The Atlantic Yards

Two Windows

April 8th, 2007 -

These photographs are from inside the Atlantic Yards site in Brooklyn. This train yard, its tunnels, a train repair shop and large parts of the surrounding neighborhood may soon be covered by a massive new development. Though demolition has begun on surrounding buildings, the proposed project is still being protested by neighborhood groups such as Develop, Don't Destroy Brooklyn, while the official site of this development is here.