Retired subway cars make a splash

Here you go, Gretch!

Seventeen-ton retirees, some 600 of them, will soon be living out their golden years on the Jersey Shore, where they will see plenty of scuba diving and fishing.

They are part of more than 1,600 stainless-steel passenger and work-crew subway cars that will head to their new homes off the Garden State and farther down the Eastern Seaboard starting in the late fall. Some have zipped down the track since the early 1960s and will continue to work in retirement -- as artificial reefs housing schools of fish while providing divers with an underwater glimpse of New York icons.

"They create a cave-like structure that let young hatchlings mature," said Mike Zacchea, a self-described reef dean for New York City Transit who is also an assistant chief of operations. "Within 30 days, marine life attaches to the car body."


Retired subway cars make a splash -- amNY.com

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