This month’s set of Photo Friday shots come to us from Shadowbat. Shadowbat is basically the undisputed king of exploring in Philly. Well – Philly does have a lot of great explorers, but very few are as consistently prolific as the mysterious Shadowbat.
Sometimes when you see broken windows, it might not just be neglect. Here we see your typical one story NYC light industry building – on it’s interior is completely gutted. Fire ravaged this place awhile back and left absolutely nothing of value to explore inside.
Of note is the “RO” sign on spray payed high up on the front of the building. This marking is left to warn other first responders that the building’s Roof is Open. The X box also indicates it is unoccupied.
I was surprised to find the shell of this building still exists today. usually places like this in NYC are bulldozed immediately and sold off so someone can build a high rise or shitbox Fedders Special on the lot.
To be a true subway exploring king, you need to get in long before the copycat hipster brigade even realizes what they’re missing.
That’s just what we did in 2008 when we visited the new South Ferry Subway Station, before it opened for business.
We’ve been seeing some press lately of one off videos promoting a new social site. The videos themselves aren’t that great and were actually recorded years ago – making them rather un-noteworthy today.
more than anything though, there’s no credit at all given to those whom this series stole it’s concept from. It’s real easy to follow in the footsteps of those who actually discovered these places and try to claim you’re awesome for doing so, but you’ll never convince those that know better who went first and truly deserves the credit. And when it comes to NYC Subway tunnels – that credit largely belongs to the graffiti artists of decades ago, and the subway foamers before them who boldly wandered NYC’s tunnel without sneaking around to do it.
So please, in response to that video series… take your svideorama back on over to the other coast and leave NYC for those of us that actually give a shit about the underground. Don’t front like you’re from here when you’re not, either.
If you’re into graffiti, you probably already go to 12oz. for your fix on graffiti news and forum beef. You might even find a once – in – a – blue – moon post by yours truly on there. They threw a quick link to our recent catch up on all the graffiti awesome one can find over at Bushwick Yard.
No, not the hipster warehouse trailer park abandonment – that was so last year.
Instead we’re talking about a park in a trailer – I was amused to find this (probably not abandoned) trailer on a bushwick street corner. It seemed completely out of place and the sign inside stating it was an art project from 2006 gave it the illusion of being another abandoned trailer – though the internet says otherwise.
Whatever the case may be, it’s clear that local hipster taggers absolutely love it. That right – fuck you F5!
Every now and then I’ll be pulling up some content already in this site as a reminder for anyone new just what we’re all about here at LTV.
A lotta people do some silly things late at night in the NYC Subway system. We, however, do what we want when we want. Daylight doesn’t stop us.
Only those that live without rules are truly free.
For more subway action, check out our subway locations – click here and hit ‘subways’ on the scroll down on the top right.
There’s a bit of internet protest going on today against SOPA - which is a really pathetic attempt by the government to be able to censor sites like this one (you know, despite the fact that nearly all of our content is completely original). Wikipedia went so far as to close it’s doors for the day. The only reason we haven’t followed suit ourselves today is that it frankly feels a bit better to take a moment and say a big
to the assholes who came up with this ridiculous attempt and censorship. It’s not enough that this legislation has been ‘shelved’ (i.e. – Obama will just sign off on it after the election like a good little robot). Those who backed it should be publicly hung as Unamerican Traitors.
Go live in fucking China or Iran if you want censorship. Get the fuck out of my country.
