Occasionally we here at LTV get snarky, extremely ignorant comments tossed in our direction from ‘urban explorers’ for the ‘hideous’ crime of posting Graffiti related content to this site, and for having published 2 highly regarded books exclusively about NYC Graffiti, and a 3rd that covers both exploring and graffiti within NYC’s subway system. What these ‘urban explorers’ don’t realize is one clear simple fact:
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Author: Control@ltvsquad.com
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Fact: NYC’s Graffiti artists were the original U.S. “urban explorers”.
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Coffee Bean Castle
We’ve been spoiling you all lately with posts full of deep location research and explicit details on various well known abandoned buildings, so it’s time for a post that leaves everything to the imagination.
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New York Dock
Red Hook contained one of NYC’s tallest abandoned industrial buildings, with one of the best graffiti galleries and a rooftop view unparalleled in awesomeness. Today, The New York Dock building is being converted into apartments.
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Abandoned 1925 vintage Staten Island Rapid Transit car 353 – 2003.
In 2003 me and Rebel SC came across this very long abandoned Staten Island Rapid Transit car.
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Q Cars
In 2001, I came across a set of 3 old wooden subway cars parked in Sunset Park, across the street from the old Davidson Pipe storage facility (which today is a Costco store). As luck would have it, they were parked in a small former SBK yard with no fence. These were the last wooden subway cars in use within the NYC subway system.
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Certified Concrete, L.I.C.
Certified Concrete owned a ready mix plant in LIC, ‘Under the Kosciuszko Bridge’ according to the NY Times.
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Certified Concrete, Bronx (Transit Ready Mix) – Now Concrete Plant Park
In 2005, I took a ride to the Bronx to check out the abandoned Transit Ready Mix facility located along the Bronx River. Transit Ready Mix was owned by Biff Halloran, who also owned Certified Concrete (thus the title to this article). (more…)
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Certified Concrete, Harlem
Growing up in NYC in the 70s and 80s, kids would joke about what would happen if you crossed the mafia. ‘You’ll end up in the east river, with concrete shoes, sleeping with the fishes’. As with all humor, the jokes were based in reality. The ready mix industry in NYC was, for decades, closely tied to the mob. One of those mobbed up companies was Certified Concrete.
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