{"nrhp_refnum":"06000016","name":"Coney Island Yard Electric Motor Repair Shop","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"SW corner of Avenue X and Shell Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brooklyn","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.58976045600008,"lon":-73.97481345899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-02-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick electric motor repair shop, also called the Traction Shop, at the northeast corner of the Coney Island Yard in Brooklyn, New York. The yard was built between 1925 and 1927 for the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Co.","why_significant":"The shop is significant under Criterion A for transportation and Criterion C for architecture. It helped keep subway equipment running and is an intact example of industrial design, with a large, well-lit, clear-span center bay. It is part of the Dual Contracts-era yard and is significant at the local level.","narrative":"This two-story brick building is the electric motor repair shop of the Coney Island Yard in Brooklyn, a subway yard built between 1925 and 1927 during the Dual Contracts expansion. Also known as the Traction Shop, it sits at the northeast corner of the yard near the main entry. The plain, box-shaped structure has recessed spandrel panels, terra cotta coping, large banks of windows and a sawtooth skylight. Inside, a clear-span central bay rises to the skylight, with exposed steel trusses and riveted girders for overhead cranes. Later changes include fiberglass window panels, brick infill of some openings, extensions from the 1970s and a major renovation in 1994. The shop is significant for transportation, because it kept subway cars in working order, and for architecture, as an intact example of industrial design whose form expresses its function. The yard was designed in-house under chief engineer Robert Ridgway, and the yard itself lost integrity, while the shop retained it.","period_of_significance":"1925-1927","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in rail-related use. It was renovated in 1994, and extensions from the 1970s onward largely obscured the north, south and east facades.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.925322-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/06000016.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000016/fd4176474b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000016/fd4176474b-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CI_Yard_Motor_Shop_fr_Av_X_station_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CI_Yard_Motor_Shop_fr_Av_X_station_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313325","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island_Yard_Electric_Motor_Repair_Shop","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5159608"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/coney-island-yard-electric-motor-repair-shop-06000016/"}