While in New York, at the wonderful Grand Central Station, I noticed there was an exhibition of interest.
The exhibition contains images from photographer Stephen Mallon, who documented an interesting recycling project.
Hundreds of former New York subway carriages were stripped of their insides, and then sent to be made into a series of artificial reefs off the coast of South Carolina over the course of several years.
Hundreds of former New York subway carriages were stripped of their insides, and then sent to be made into a series of artificial reefs off the coast of South Carolina over the course of several years.
A few articles describing the project are this Atlas Obscura post, and this article, which describes the scale of the projects that MTA have been involved in.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has since created an artificial reef for oysters in Jamaica Bay with 5,000 porcelain toilets discarded by city schools. There was a poster about the One Billion Oyster project on Staten Island, and I will blog about that in a future post.
Check out the website here for more details.
Stephen Mallon is the photographer.
Follow Stephen on @stevemallon to see more of his work and projects.
Here's an untapped cities article:
https://untappedcities.com/2019/03/18/see-stunning-photos-of-nyc-subway-cars-dropped-into-the-ocean-to-become-reefs/
I am going to work this up into a resource exploring sustainability / recycling / coastal change / tourism.
I am going to work this up into a resource exploring sustainability / recycling / coastal change / tourism.
Image: Alan Parkinson - shared under CC license
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