MTA GOING YOUR WAY
Protesters did a mass turnstile hop last week, in order to highlight how ridiculous the $2.75 fare is, and that adding 500 more cops to beat up commuters and point guns at locked subway cars full of commuters is really not a good look for Governor MTA Cuomo, who likes to claim “I am the left!” Sure and I’m fucking Cardi B. Piss off Cuomo, you shifty mommaluke!!
Meanwhile, right-wing lunatic fringe media outlets are clutching their pearls. OH NOES! AOC expressed support for the protesters! OH MY GOD THEY WANT PEOPLE TO USE MASS TRANSIT AND WALL STREET MIGHT NOT GET THE BILLIONS IN LOAN INTEREST NEW YORKERS ARE FORCED TO PAY EVERY TIME THEY SWIPE! HOW DARE WE STAND UP TO THE BILLIONAIRES!
Such Urbex Much Wow
This is kind of amazing. A reporter at the Staten Island Advance has clearly just learned about tHe UrBeX! and is running wild all over the island hitting up spots as if that shit is legal.
KPPC’s nazi ghosts.
Police on Long Island wasted a shit ton of money last week paroling the long abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center. According to local drug addled teens, the buildings are haunted and the only time of year to ever go break in there would be on Halloween. You know, because going there any time other than Halloween would make sense.
Just one month ago, Governor MTA was complaining about swastikas painted on the exterior of a building at KPPC. Apparently UrBex King Governor Cuomo still hasn’t entered any of the buildings, but give it time.
Boozy LA History
Bet you didn’t know alcohol was smuggled through a trolley tunnel in LA?
San Francisco Drains
Speaking of the Cali underground, KQED has a fun story about San Fran’s drains, with some good photos and info to boot. Want to spend all your time underground? SF’s Public Utilities Commission is hiring!
Paulinskill Viaduct
New Jersey still has no idea what to do with the very long abandoned Paulinskill Viaduct. The only thing the state knows is wowee by golly it sure is not legal to do up there so whatever you do don’t trespass omg lawbreakers wow.
Other Uses for Old Bandos
The address of a ‘bando in Florida was being used for some shady political fuckery. How many of y’all have used the address of nearby ‘bandos to get your illegal products delivered? Just set up a mail box out front and them postal guys—they don’t give a fuck. Leveraging these mailing addresses has been a way of establishing squatter rights in for decades now.
I mean shit, you could go online, order a few gun parts, have them sent to a ‘bando that doesn’t quite look like a ‘bando, and do a real good job of covering up the acquisition of a murder weapon. Not that I’ve ever done that, mind you. But you could. When your done, take it apart and yeet that shit into the Gowanus!
It’s 2020 and profiles of urbexers are still at thing
The New Haven register has an article about some young explorers, which hits on all the same old themes ya’all have probably read twenty times before. If that one doesn’t have enough rooftops for you, check out this one from the rooftops of UCLA.
The trash panda content you live for.
Some raccoons decided to break into a library in Arkansas because it’s Arkansas. It’s all trash. At least they weren’t day drinking?
I am the lion now.
Myah Autry, NYC’s most brazen trespasser, gave some wild statements to the press after they caught up with her outside a New Jersey court appearance. She stated she didn’t know the NYPD was looking for her, and that she’d turn herself in—a statement she contradicted later. Stay free Empress Lion Queen! NYC got your back!
Update: Myah turned herself in last night, after a day long instagram posting spree announcing where she’d turn herself in, inviting fans to come on out and be there. I’ll follow up more next week but seriously, fuck the NYC criminal justice system for taking one person doing a dumb thing one time and making it in a ‘tough on crime’ no-fun show. Cops couldn’t even find her, even while she was taking selfies with them.
FATBERGS!
A crew of brave sewer maintainers removed a huge 40 ton FATBERG from under the streets of London. “It took three weeks for Thames Water workers to clear the “disgusting” blockage which at points took up 80% of the sewer’s capacity. They used a combination of high-powered water jets to blast it loose and removed debris by hand.”
Bando BBQ!
Also on the burn list for this week was some ‘bando in Wichita, a warehouse in San Diego, and an aggregate company south of Kansas City. Gotta love this news footage of the KC fire—complete with freight trains zipping by.
Eugene, Oregon firefighters crushed a fire at an abandoned apartment building last week, highlighting that yes bish, it’s getting cold and squatters ain’t got a good way to stay warm. Do better, society. Speaking of squatter fires, bandos in Eureka, CA and Portsmouth, VA also went up in flames, due to squatters.
International Update
Going to Japan? Here’s a listical of bandos that are about to be overrun with tourists.
For anyone feeling a bit more Northern Europe, you’ve got your choice of underground nuclear waste facility in Finland, or maybe an underground naval base in Sweden. How daring are you? You can also make your way into this ‘bando train tunnel in the UK before it becomes a bike path… well… if it ever becomes a bike path…
A man was found living underground in Dublin—this time in a tiny room accessible only via a small crawl hole. Meanwhile, if you’re looking to be a Sneaky McSneakerson, you can hack this irish database and find yourself a vacant house to squat in.
Speaking of living underground, another underground squat was found in India last week, apparently near some high security lab facility. There’s no word on if they found the squatter, guess we’ll have to revert back to you if they ever do. 😛
If all of this is too grim and you really need to smoke a big fatty boombalaty, you could take a secret tunnel from the foot of a toilet bowl to an amazing weed growhouse. Imagine that: you’re dropping some kids at the pool and suddenly a false floor opens right in front of you and some guy is hauling out ounces of weed. Dude. Wow. Air Freshener that shit.
When you think about it, El Chapo built more tunnels than Elon Musk ever will.
Anti-government demonstrators in Baghdad have taken over a 14 floor bando. Badass. Fuck corrupt governments installed by the CIA.
No international update is complete without at least one Brexitland article about ‘bandos you need to go play in like immediately. If that’s not enough, check out these tunnels under Glasgow. These brits really are working at getting your hard looted UE travel dollars!
OH WOWEE ME TOO!
And finally, a garbage anti-union publication owned by a guy who claimed he was an urban explorer ran a story about Admirals Row mere days after I posted mine. The truth is, Admirals row was a really boring place to explore, especially when compared to all the high rise rooftops and subway tunnels NYC has to offer.
Maybe they can bite my style and try running an article on the Navy Yard’s abandoned rail tracks, or how the BHRA stored a bunch of trolleys there before they all disappeared. Then again I doubt it. Few people even knew about the the BHRA trains, and fewer still have photos of them on that pier.
Some of us have just plain been exploring longer and harder than the rest.
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