New Exhibit Shows Subway Cars That Were Converted to Artificial Reefs
(Story photo - Photographer Robert Martore; Courtesy South Carolina Department of Natural Resources)
It was the final trip for thousands of New York subway cars: down the Harlem River, through the harbor and out into the ocean.
Last stop: the bottom of the sea.
“There’s a lot of emotion to these cars. I’ve been on them, I’ve held them, I’ve waited for them. Amazing experience for me seeing them thrown into the ocean,” photographer Stephen Mallon said.
Photographer Stephen Mallon was scouting a photo shoot when he saw a barge stacked with old subway cars. He had stumbled on a program that dumped the cars off the East Coast to create artificial reefs.
Mallon decided to document the process.
"I would ask the captain to put me in certain places to