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Locations

Exploring location files

Brooklyn’s Abandoned 68th and 75th Police Stations

Along the dark edges of Brooklyn lay two abandoned and derelict police stations. Their fate is, as of this writing, completely uncertain.



Greenpoint Terminal Warehouses – a decade after the fire

Greenpoint Terminal is the gift that keeps on giving, even a decade later.



Abandoned Allied Extruders Factory

The end of the line for one of LIC’s last large manufacturers. When tehy closed up shop, they left behind an abandoned factory space bereft of hints to its past.



NYCHA’s Queensbridge Auto Junkyard: State Sponsored Blight

For one NYC housing project, it’s the 1970 & 80s all over again.



James Connolly

“The day has passed for patching up the capitalist system; it must go.”



Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (BEDT) – The abandoned years

The Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (BEDT) was a small railroad located along the Brooklyn waterfront. Their property ran from N.4th street to North 11th street.



Views from 4705 Center Blvd, LIC (2007 Construction)

2007 was one of the hardest years of my life.



LIC Elks Lodge – Developer Vandalism Edition

In LIC, a new preservation battle has escalated quickly.



The abandoned northern end of Bushwick Inlet Park

In 2005, a large swath of the north Brooklyn waterfront was rezoned. To gain community approval for this rezoning, a large 28 acre park surrounding Bushwick Inlet was promised, and never delivered.



Abandoned Ozone Park LIRR station & the giant spider that lived there

In 2002, Me, M, and a reporter climbed up onto the old LIRR Rockaway Beach tracks in Ozone Park.



Abandoned Keap Street Metal Factory

In the heart of Williamsburg once sat a mysterious, abandoned factory building that was not long for this rapidly redeveloping world we call Brooklyn. This post isn’t so much a piece of it’s story as it is a photographic documentation of it’s time before death.



Views from ‘The Factory’ apartments in LIC

Sometimes even a dinky construction site can yield great views.



Inside the long abandoned tenement at Court Square (23-01 44th drive)

A few days ago, the ‘green boards of death’ went up around the long abandoned apartment building under the 7 train at Court Square.