The Electric Car ShopUnderneath 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:
- 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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The Long Shop
Red Windows
View from a Window: Wards Bakery
I didn't even see the typical LIRR supervisor, somehow.
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ReplyDeleteCool 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?
ReplyDeleteThese 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...
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Excellent blog about Atlantic Yards Part Three: The Electric Car Shop!! I love all the articles you have, you have done an excellent job with the information on them.!!!
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