In the east, a new city rose…
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Category: Locations
Exploring location files
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NYCHA’s Queensbridge Auto Junkyard: State Sponsored Blight
For one NYC housing project, it’s the 1970 & 80s all over again.
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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.
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LIC Elks Lodge – Developer Vandalism Edition
In LIC, a new preservation battle has escalated quickly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Views from ‘The Factory’ apartments in LIC
Sometimes even a dinky construction site can yield great views.
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