The guard that was usually on duty had finally disappeared… so you know what happened next. I’ll just let the photos say it all.
NYC specific explorations
The guard that was usually on duty had finally disappeared… so you know what happened next. I’ll just let the photos say it all.
I remember 2004. It was springtime, and A & P were in town once again. These guys are a little more on the daring side, and they hadn’t seen the insanity that was the Greenpoint Terminal Warehouses just yet, so off we went.
The Revere/Sucrose sugar refinery was Brooklyn’s ‘Other’ abandoned sugar mill. Located in Red Hook, it was bulldozed out of existence by 2006. Secured up until the very end, very few ‘explorers’ and next to no graffiti artists ever breached it’s walls. We did though. Of course we did. Because it’s expected.
Vulture capitalist know no shame and are perfectly willing to go to hell. Freeganism at it’s finest.
A first look into one of the largest power plant ever to be abandoned in NYC
A crash course in breaking into warehouses full of Taxis.
After we found out that CF Freight had filed for bankruptcy and shut down their warehouse just south of GTW, we took advantage of the newly desolated surroundings to gain access for this, the first ever recorded daylight raid on the terminal.
The Washburn wire factory in Harlem was the very likely the largest factory in Manhattan. After production shut down, the factory became a haven for drug addicts and the homeless – a vast ‘mad max’ wasteland where not even the police would enter.
Breaking into abandoned buildings is a hobby froth with dangers. The building being on fire usually isn’t one of them.
In 2001, we came across the historic remains of the Brooklyn City Railroad Company powerhouse. Inside, we found a gross tribute to late stage capitalism. (Original write up from July 2001 (with minor edits) – Building history & Update below) One fine summer evening we ended our day of exploring here. As we approach the […]
History The Quanta Resources Site is an approximately 1.8 acre parcel located at 37-80 Review Avenue, within a highly industrialized area of Long Island City, Queens, New York. A Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from 1898 indicates that the site was partially occupied by vacant and dilapidated brick wrecks of an oil refinery. Available information indicates […]
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