Sal Pallante, 55, is trying to sell an original 1935 R6 city subway car now sitting on a Canarsie lot. On Monday, he put the subway car-one of only seven left-on eBay with a starting price of $24,000.
A historic Brooklyn subway car long off the rails is back on the block.
Sal Pallante, 55, is trying to sell an original 1935 R6 city subway car now sitting on a Canarsie lot.
“I need to do something with it,” said Pallante, a mechanic who needs the lot to store cars.
On Monday, he put the subway car-one of only seven left-on eBay with a starting price of $24,000.
He hasn’t gotten any takers yet.
“Scrapping it is easy,” he said. “But this is something you don’t scrap. It has value.”
The subway saga began in the late 1970s a distant relative of Pallantes bought the white old car from the MTA.
Raymond Pannone used it for funky seating inside a kosher deli he ran on Staten Island.
After 30-years, Golden’s Deli in New Springville closed in 2012.
“I was asked a favor to move it to my storage yard down in Bushwick,” recalled Pallante.
That’s where it sat until Pallante was forced to give up the land. He then used a flatbed truck to transport it to his lot in Canarsie where he stores cars he’s fixing.
That’s frequently forced him to shift cars onto the street and caused a major headache for his auto repair business.
