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NYC Industrial Ruins

Over the last 20 years, we have made a point of exploring every abandoned factory, warehouse and industrial related location within NYC. Here is a sampling of some of these locations, including photos and in depth histories (where possible).

GTW aerial Photos, Adventure Maps, and Salvaged Loot


It’s hard to describe the adventures that were had at Greenpoint Terminal without a view of the whole complex. So let’s take a look:



Todd Shipyard, Red Hook, Brooklyn. NYC


Before Ikea came to Red Hookl, a ship yard got the shaft.



Flushing Light Industry Center


Raid on the mighty sized illegal merchandise warehouse.



Sucrose/Revere Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn

The Sugar Dome

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.



The Eagle: Former Eagle Electric Factory


Hitting the moving targets…



Waterside Generating Station, Manhattan, NYC


A first look into one of the largest power plant ever to be abandoned in NYC



Hell Gate Bridge


So far as I’m concerned, there is only one bridge in NYC that matters. Only one bridge worth climbing. Only one bridge shrouded in more ghost stories and urban legends than you could fit into a 200 page issue of Weird NJ. Entire movies have been written about this bridge. Hell Gate Bridge. This is […]