Did you know the Navy Yard once contained it’s own Hospital, and some of its abandoned buildings still survive today?
Supplemental content to the Abandoned Industries of New York book series.
Did you know the Navy Yard once contained it’s own Hospital, and some of its abandoned buildings still survive today?
Admiral’s Row was the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s best known Bando. Literally that’s the only reason for this post.
Nearly ten years ago, we made an accidental discovery hidden in an abandoned corner of the Navy Yard that would soon become one of the most recognized memorials in NYC.
Trivia time: what is the one building in NYC that not only had a train track running through it, but was also used to build entire sections of legendary U.S. battleships?
Is the Brooklyn Navy Yard is the secret Hollywood of the east coast? Something new is filmed here every day.
Il-Makiage was a pioneering, NYC grown cosmetics company. Founded in 1972, the company operated out of a gritty unlabeled warehouse on Davis street in L.I.C. Their neighbors included the Cosola Contractors workshop (which at the time was used by a Hispanic newspaper), and the far better known Neptune Meter Company, whose buildings became the legendary […]
Davis street in LIC is one of the many short, dead end streets that until recently, time forgot.