Trivia time: what is the one building in NYC that not only had a train track running through it, but was also used to build entire sections of legendary U.S. battleships?
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Trivia time: what is the one building in NYC that not only had a train track running through it, but was also used to build entire sections of legendary U.S. battleships?
Is the Brooklyn Navy Yard is the secret Hollywood of the east coast? Something new is filmed here every day.
Il-Makiage was a pioneering, NYC grown cosmetics company. Founded in 1972, the company operated out of a gritty unlabeled warehouse on Davis street in L.I.C. Their neighbors included the Cosola Contractors workshop (which at the time was used by a Hispanic newspaper), and the far better known Neptune Meter Company, whose buildings became the legendary […]
Davis street in LIC is one of the many short, dead end streets that until recently, time forgot.
It seems our favorite resident ‘abandoned’ locomotive still lives.
Over the years, we’ve published a few catty articles on this site that attacked some poorly thought out new transit ideas running through Queens. So let’s be clear: we need to build all of it.
Down on the Gowanus, a hot tip lead us to a rare NYC ‘abando treat: Ferrara Bros Abandoned Concrete Plant.
Growing up in Queens, we had no shortage of abandoned houses to explore.
Located on Vernon boulevard in LIC, the Paragon paint building is currently an abandoned shell of its former self.
The Astoria Presbyterian church was located on 33rd street, near 31st avenue. It was demolished in 2010.
10 years ago, the NYC government had an opportunity to save a historic church in Maspeth, Queens. Nearly every elected official involved either dropped the ball or did not care.
For a hot minute in 2011, Astoria had its very own abandoned funeral home.
LIRR railfan special passes under the present day M line on Myrtle Avenue on September 9th, 1956. Photo by Bill Rugen (via Steve Lynch’s LIRR history site, reposted w/permission) Unless you ask a real old timer, most people in Ridgewood have no idea a railroad ran right through the middle of the neighborhood.
1884 Route Map of the New York and Manhattan Beach railroad, showing the Greenpoint segment of track.
NYC’s first major water supply came from a aqueduct tunnel that was abandoned in 1955
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