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5 hours at Mc Kay's: Ghetto Loft Raid 2003
| Often times the best exploration
trips will be those that are completely unplanned - 'targets of opportunity".
This was the exact case when we tagged along with the large, mysterious
and often misrepresented members of "Clue Patrol" into the
ghettos of Brooklyn. It was here, in the middle of nowhere, that we
arrived at 2 very similar old warehouse buildings standing across
the street from each other that have since been converted to loft
spaces. The populations of these huge buildings are almost entirely
composed of young white hipsters who party like it's the late 70's.
Break it down, rip it up, throw it the fuck out the window. The buildings
are a scene into themselves. One building is clean and renovated,
while the other is coated with graffiti on many doors and hallways.
Tags from all the most current writers, Goal, NeckFace, the BP crew
- and now the Clue Patrol, could be found here. The party we dipped
in on featured some outstanding music, Joker 5 Speed playing live
downstairs, & and our favorite DJ Dyztort spinning upstairs.
Free Beer, Blow, a large number of your best peoples, and a huge building
or 2 with some hidden secrets to wander around all night long. Can
you ask for a better night? |
Long Hallways - another loft behind each graffitied doorway, and other
oddities, such as a Mortal Kombat arcade game, tucked into one hallway
corner.
The upper floor hallways of the graffitied building are still being
rebuilt.
We noticed a few hot water heaters in rooms off of each floor's hallway.
This is, to say the least, curious. As we went downstairs towards
the basement, we came across this odd scene.
B&B, Clue style?
Bagz, Clue Sticker...
Up on the roof: random like minded party wanders accumulate to drink,
throw pennies over the side, and tag up in krylon clouding bliss.
Looking down on the street below.
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Heading up, the stairs are coated with graf, stocked with construction
supplies.
The backyard of the graffitied building is full of trash and furniture.
It was as if when residents get bored of there furnishings that they
would toss it straight out the windows.
Hoses go down the stairs, to a moist basement level of dirt and cobwebs.
We followed the hoses down...
...and found out why there are water heaters everywhere: the boiler
has been under water for years. Only now is it being pumped out. With
several feet of water left to be removed, you can see by the rust
lines how far up it once stood. (while hard to tell from this photo,
the boiler was massive, encased in a large stone walled room.
Stairway Window
Securing the opposite rooftop. |
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