Old train cars getting new paint. Ain’t nuthin else to talk about.
Category: Locations
Exploring location files
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Par Chem, part 2
This is part 2 of our photo series on Par Chemical. The first one can be found here.
New Jersey is often associated with huge ridiculous chemical factories. This place falls directly into that category. Abandoned for several years now, this massive factory and laboratory have since been taken over by nature. The company that built it is still in business – only they’ve modernized their operation and built a huge new facility elsewhere on their expansive property – leaving this one behind to decay. it would probably cost more to clean it up and scrap it out than to leave is rusting away in it’s present day state.
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Par Chem, Part 1
New Jersey is often associated with huge ridiculous chemical factories. This place falls directly into that category. Abandoned for several years now, this massive factory and laboratory have since been taken over by nature. The company that built it is still in business – only they’ve modernized their operation and built a huge new facility elsewhere on their expansive property – leaving this one behind to decay. it would probably cost more to clean it up and scrap it out than to leave is rusting away in it’s present day state.
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Essex County Isolation Hospital (Main Building, 2012)
In the NYC suburb of Belleview, New Jersey, the Essex County Isolation Hospital has sat abandoned for years.
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Retro Files: Essex County Isolation Hospital Outbuildings, 2001
This was the very first abandoned hospital I ever visited. Located in lovely downtown Belleville, New Jersey, this set of buildings was located behind a rather huge main building which was in use at the time. Today, not one trace of these buildings exists. They were bulldozed half a dozen years ago and replaced with crappy little garden apartment buildings. Quite the unfitting demise for a structure that dated back to 1905 and was still quite structurally sturdy.
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I Love Environmental Investigation
Everyone loves ‘Environmental Investigations’. it’s government speak for when an abandoned factory is potentially so toxic and beyond superfund status that no one really knows how many toxic chemicals and crap are in the soil of the property.
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Junkies Auto Repair
So I’m driving all over notfarNJ all day with a former felon, and we’re on a spree. Every big abandoned building we see, we barge right into. This is the sort of broad daylight exploring blitz I live for.
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Stella D’oro
The Stella D’oro cookie factory was a longstanding source of good paying jobs in The Bronx – that is, until a private equity company got involved.
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