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Riveting Photos Of Retired Subway Cars Being Dropped Into The Ocean

Jan 20, 2015 by Tiffany Mueller 1 Comment
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What actually happens to all those old subway cars that are retired from the New York City subway? One might suspect they’re sent off to the salvage yard where they’ll be scrapped for metal and spare parts before they arrive at their final resting place in some landfill outside of town. While some of that assumption is true, the subway cars actually go on to serve a meaningful (and environmentally friendly) life as artificial reefs on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

Photographer, Stephen Mallon, a New York City local, has spent three years documenting the cause in which he has been witness to countless numbers of the stripped down cars approaching their final destiny as they take the plunge into the ocean. Mallon’s series, Next Stop Atlantic, documents the work of the Metropolitan Transit Authority in their effort to provide marine life with a new place to call home while keeping the large cars out of landfills. Once the cars land on the ocean floor, microorganisms will take to the structures creating a source of food for various types of sea life in addition to providing shelter for some aquatic animals. [Read More…]

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