Author: Control@ltvsquad.com
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F’ing mirror image.
Sometimes subway stations are only, at best, half in use. There’s many many many stations with abandoned mezzanines and closed off entrances. This is one of them.
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DSNY Brooklyn North Garage / Commercial Corrugated Container Corp
2008 seems like a lifetime ago on Kent Ave. Back then I used to drive up this road often – it was two way, had little traffic, and even fewer traffic lights. Nearly every building along it was abandoned, including this, the former DSNY Brooklyn North Garage.
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Construction Hijinx.
Late night, out jones for something to break into. We came across this high rise construction site and refused to be denied. Fuck the security guy sleeping right there near the entrance. If they’re going to charge a million dollars for these apartments in a few months, I sure as fuck want to see that shit before it becomes a fucking trend.
The view wasn’t bad, made for nice night photos. Never pay for a view you can steal.
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Staten Island Smash And Grab: The pilfered apartment building.
2002. Slim Jim comes to town for a week of exploring. One of them days we happened across a very odd apartment building in the ghetto. Huge in size and containing some people behind locked doors, and with virtually no vandalism or signs of wear and tear, we weren’t even sure this place was 100% abandoned. We go back at night and see as much as we can while being as quiet as we can…2004: A lot more wear and tear, but it’s still in good looking shape. The lights are still on.
2005: Attempted filming of footage for ridiculous TV show gets nixed due to too much attention from the natives and the crazy white guy that wanted all 20 of us to go back to his place for some V8s.
2008: Associates tell me of this building now having no windows. We all head back out there 2 weeks later and I get a look myself…
…and in that look, i must say, wow. In a short span of time, this place has gone straight to hell.
So far as I can tell a recent fire in the building made it clear to all that it is abandoned. With access holes everywhere, the entire building has been destroyed by locals and scrappers. Halls are tagged to hell, as are apartments. The power is shut off, and whoever was squatting here before has long gone – their apartments completely destroyed.
The penthouse, fully furnished in 2002, is now destroyed. Huge windows have all been blown out. The couches lay in the weeds below.
More has come out about this buildings past. Once a hospital, the property changed hands a few times until someone sold apartments here as condos. Not too long thereafter, the building was in the courts, and all the residents thrown out. It seems whoever sold the apartments was not the actual rightful owner. Hard working people were scammed of their cash.
Today it sits like this, nearly too far gone to be saved. What the next chapter will be, who knows…
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The Aquaslide
It’s always nice to be able to revisit an old favorite. Thanks to all those that made this trip and the drinking afterwards… oh and your mom, because I totally touched her MilfBags later on that night…
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Azbesty: Brooklyn Navy Yard Power Plant Night Raid
Update – 4.27.2013
This post originally ran under the simple title of ‘Azbesty’ – which is the polish translation of Asbestos. Warning signs labeled ‘Azbesty’ were all over the interior of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Power Plant. When we originally published this writeup in 2008, we refrained from naming the exact building for a whole host of reasons that are better answered in our FAQ.Original Writeup
Me and S head out again looking for trouble. The target of our trip this evening is a large industrial site to maybe be disclosed later. For now I’ll keep it quiet though, in keeping with the grand tradition. Those that know, will, those that don’t, can wait – just like your mom on the corner in her finest short stained dress.Oh but I digress. Let’s cut to the chase, into the fence, and through the doors – straight into the belly of this asbestos laden beast. The air is thick with the stuff. Far thicker than I’ve smelt it in years. Kings Park steam tunnels smell like a spring day compared to this place. That doesn’t much stop us from doing what needs to be done, and what needs to be done immediately – as this building is going to be wiped from the face of this planet within weeks.
The asbestos abatement work is in full swing, and the trash bags full of the stuff are everywhere in the first section of the building we enter. The complex is really split into 3 practically interconnected buildings. To get to the other two from here, you have to go through the rat-maze area where workers change from their asbestos outfits into normal clothes. This decon area is set up so workers have to shower on the way out. There are no other doors. Everything is sealed up. I’ve seen abatement sites before but nothing this elaborate.
The rest of the building area is all very huge, as expected. It takes a few hours to see everything. But the third building section is already coming down. Huge holes in the walls and ceiling testify this fact. Bobcats on the 6th floor balcony do as well.
Having seen and smelt more than enough, we take our now fireproof selves back out the way we came in, satisfied to have seen what will, in a matter of weeks, most likely be entirely gone.
Another NYC industrial relic bites the big one, following in the footsteps of all the greats. Phelps Dodge, Sucrose, Todd, Harlem Heroin, Typhin Steel, GTW… And so it goes…
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Vancouver Alley Fever
Vancouver is a city of alleys, and it is here where most graffiti seems to thrive. While walls can be relatiely clean, the trash dumpsters most definitely are not.
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Hopeless Warehouse
With one ear to the ground and a finger on the shutter button I heard about this MFer and proceeded to the scene of the crime. Arriving just in time, this building was found to be a triplet like this rhyme. Developers are taking it down just like they do all around town. It’s the dawn of a new age, these condos are all the rage setting the stage for a yuppified city without you in it. I could go on but you get the idea, if you ain’t got the cash you got to leave here. They don’t want you no more because you’re not new…
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Vancouver Cesspool Hotel
Traveling to other cities is usually an eye opener. Here in NYC, there’s little left abandoned for too long, and almost one of it is actually inside of Manhattan (downtown). Vancouver, however, presented this odd animal: An abandoned hotel surrounded by high rises.
This place doesn’t have long for this world, of course, but I found it to be most charming. An abandoned building with all it’s doors wide open for anyone to wander into. Given the relative ‘red light district’ feel for one of the nearby streets, i thought I might encounter some shady people in here. That was not the case though…
You have to love an abandonment where you can park your car right in the parking lot and go to town…
