Witness the photos above, and get an education in handstyle circa 1985 – to find a room that is still decorated like this in the year 2005 is utterly baffling.
Month: March 2005
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GTW: Old School Graffiti Room
While exploring, it is not uncommon to come across old graffiti. however, it is uncommon to come across graffiti inside of a building that is at least 20 years old.
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Greenpoint Terminal Graffiti Room
Greenpoint terminal was a big enough set of buildings that you could go over and over and over and still find new things. On this night we accessed a room that looked as though a squatter was living in it. Upon closer inspection though it appears the room was used as a local hang out for kids growing up in the area in the 1980s, and judging from the style of graffiti, may later have been used by some punk rock squatters.
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Subways – Vent Shaft 2 – Chelsea
This is another MTA exhaust ventilation fan plant construction site. This project, costing nearly $30 million dollars, involves the expansion of yet another preexisting fan plant to better remove smoke and increase air circulation within an MTA Subway tunnel.
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Sea Honk Hell
What is the “Sea Honk”? And how many red pills do you have to take before you finally find it, whatever it is?
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Subways – Vent Shaft 1 – Lower East Side
In the spring of 2001, the MTA proposed the construction of this fan plant. The construction consists of a large hole, 70 feet deep, ripped open cut-and-cover style below a local Manhattan street. This location had previously contained an MTA subway emergency exit with an extra ancillary space constructed specifically for future utility use such as this.
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