Just one of those nights…
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Author: Control@ltvsquad.com
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Sucrose/Revere Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn
Intro:
The Sucrose/Revere 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.
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The Eagle: Former Eagle Electric Factory
Exploration in NYC at the moment is basically a red hot moving target – if you want to hit it hard you just got to keep moving and keep on punching the damned thing – elsewise you’re likely to miss a lot of the old spots being redeveloped… That was the case with this former Eagle Electric Factory.
When a well respected cat told me it was accessible, we went immediately. Inside this huge warehouse had already been more or less gutted, but the remains of course proved plenty photogentic. On a second visit we came across some couple in the middle of a photoshoot.
Before you know it though, this spot will be high priced apartments (because rich people just can’t get enough apartments around town, or so it seems), and the next 5 buildings that could ahve been explored will have already been converted…
There’s no time to dwell if you want it all.
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Myrtle Ave Abandoned Station and Mezzanine
Growing up in 70s/80s NYC, I always loved coming home from Coney Island. I’d be up at the front of the train (usually some graffiti covered R-30 or R-40 cars) eagerly awaiting the approach to the Manhattan bridge where I could stare out at the dark mystery world known as Myrtle Avenue.
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Ader-Rat, and other snitch stories
When Revs was finally busted in 1999, everyone smelt a rat, and suspicion immediately centered on Ader.
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The embassy of bewildered souls.
This busy subway tunnel seemed to be one of the more popular ones among graffiti artists. Given it’s open spaces and easy hiding spots, it’s not hard to see why.
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YOU CAN’T SEE ME.
In the age of Holyer Than Thou exploration, fresh tunnels are the thing, and egos are king.
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WHAT IS THE SEA HONK?? – Abandoned Lower level platform, 42nd street.
42nd Street Lower is a very well know, oddly constructed subway station.
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Exploring the Abandoned Worth Street Subway Station (2005)
Worth street station on the IRT line is a strange breed among abandoned subway stations.
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Just a Minor Threat: Revs First Page
In 1981 Minor Threat’s self titled EP and song became something of a punk rock anthem. Close to 25 years later, I found it just a little amusing and perhaps a bit ironic too that the three of us standing in this room at the moment are probably some of the only people that have stopped by here for awhile that actually knew where some of those words scrawled on the walls were from, and maybe ever so slightly the mindset behind it. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, take a hint from the title of this post, and the fact that Revs had his own punk rock band at one point.
With that bit of setup mystery – here are the facts: Between 1994 and 1999, Revs painted over 200 ‘journal pages’ in NYC subway tunnels. He created one in nearly every NYC subway tunnel, until he was caught (and many falsely suspected ratted out) right towards the end. His first page was in an emergency exit located along the R line, in Bay Ridge
This first page existed up until a few years ago, and was one of the first ones destroyed when the MTA began throwing away money by repainting all emergency exits.
The entire exit was painted – with graffiti on the walls, ceilings, etc. Some walls were covered in the huge slaps that Revs & Cost became best known for back in the late 1980s.
It’s a shame that this room was basically destroyed. Today it’s covered in boring MTA gray paint.
Most Revs pages remain in their original form, those a few have been destroyed over the years – most by hater-writers, and at least one by the collapse of the world trade center on 9/11.
