The LTV Squad is an NYC based multidisciplinary group focused on exploring, photography, history and government accountability. We’re the longest running team of explorers in NYC. We’re also a niche publisher of photography & travel books – the proceeds of which keep this site online.
GO DEEPER
Some say we invented the modern day game of exploring tunnels in NYC. While there’s some truth to that, we’re really just carrying on tradition of exploring tunnels that dates all the way back to the day that the subways opened and people rushed into the tunnels to check them out. Tunnel exploring in NYC was a rarified hobby mostly of left to blue collar workers and foamers. Then in the 1970s graffiti artists took to the tunnels to paint trains. Today, a new breed runs the tunnels, not bent on painting – just exploring and seeing the hundreds of hidden sections to be found underground.
We’ve been in more abandoned buildings in NYC than anyone else. Period.
How many? 100, 500, 100? We lost count long ago. These days there are few abandoned buildings in NYC. All of the old greats – Pepsi, Schwartz, Revere Sugar, Bush Terminal, Washburn Wire, BEDT, even Domino – have been leveled and replaced. As the cycle of “development” continues, we keep an eye out for newly vacated locations to document before the inevitable bulldozer shows up.
DEEP HISTORY
Deep History
Intense documentation of the obscure. We perform deep dive research on the industrial history of NYC that is second to none, uncovering facts and stories that provide a unique view into the fabric of what made NYC the city that it is today.