Where do old New York City subway cars go to retire?

(No, this isn’t the start of a bad joke.)

The New York City Transit Authority has donated 41 subway cars to help the environment here in South Carolina.

With their windows and doors removed, these subway cars make a surprisingly effective artificial reef about 25 miles offshore and will anchor corals, sponges, barnacles, algae and other organisms that are unable to colonize the sandy bottom of the ocean floor here.  This will, in turn, attract fish, crabs and shrimp, who will use the reef for shelter and even food.  This, in turn will attract larger species, and… well, you get the picture.

I’m sure there’s a good joke here about the New York subway and Myrtle Beach real estate… but I’ll leave it up to you for the punchline.

Thanks to the Myrtle Beach Sun News for the picture.