Hundreds Of NYC Subway Cars Becoming Reefs In New Jersey

Some 600 New York City subway cars will spend the rest of their days down the shore as artificial reefs. The decision by state Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa Jackson was eagerly anticipated by fishermen and divers excited about the fish the subway cars will attract. But some environmentalists are wary, saying the subway cars contain potentially hazardous materials. It's not the first time old subway cars were scuttled off the New Jersey coast to create artificial reefs. In a memo issued Monday, Jackson cited studies that have found no effects from asbestos in an older generation of subway cars sunk at sea a few years ago...