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Admirals Row: Brooklyn Navy Yard’s most famous ‘bando

Admiral’s Row was the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s best known Bando. Literally that’s the only reason for this post.



Abandoned houses of Astoria & LIC, a retrospective

Growing up in Queens, we had no shortage of abandoned houses to explore.



Astoria’s Abandoned Funeral Home

For a hot minute in 2011, Astoria had its very own abandoned funeral home.



The Laurel Hill Houses, demolished to make way for the new Kosciuszko Bridge

NOTE: This story was originally published on an earlier version of this site, in April of 2011. The actual exploration took place in December of 2010. There’s an update at the end.



Inside the long abandoned tenement at Court Square (23-01 44th drive)

A few days ago, the ‘green boards of death’ went up around the long abandoned apartment building under the 7 train at Court Square.



Flushing Stalled Construction Site

Over the last several years, Queens has been plagued by stalled construction sites: New, poorly built, half completed buildings that replaced smaller viable homes.



The Block

Buildings in the path of Bulldozers



The Goss Hotel

The resort of choice for vacationing reprobates.



Bushwick Trailer Park

Brooklyn Trailer Park Commune trailers on the street in Greenpoint.



LaHouse

Not to be confused with LaGas



Admirals Row

Future Unknown.



Staten Island Smash And Grab: The pilfered apartment building.

2002. Slim Jim comes to town for a week of exploring. One of them days we happened across a very odd apartment building in the ghetto. Huge in size and containing some people behind locked doors, and with virtually no vandalism or signs of wear and tear, we weren’t even sure this place was 100% […]



Vancouver Cesspool Hotel

Abandoned Shit downtown



Cangros Transmission

Telegraphing the death of a neighborhood.