Greenpoint Terminal is the gift that keeps on giving, even a decade later.
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Category: Greenpoint Terminal Warehouses
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Greenpoint Terminal Warehouses – a decade after the fire
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Greenpoint Terminal Warehouses – Post-fire sunset.
2 weeks later I got down to the hood again to get some nice shots just as the sun set. The most remarkable thing I found was how the now entirely collapsed/destroyed buildings opened up a startlingly good view of the Empire State Building.
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Greenpoint Terminal Warehouses: After the Fire
These photos were taken late in the day on May 2nd 2006, the day that the heart and Soul of GTW burned.
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Greenpoint Terminal Warehouses: May 2 2006
On the night of May 2nd, close to 24 hours after the fire had started, the flames were still burning and the smoke was still thick. The NYPD had the entire area still closed off, but that didn’t stop The Man, aka Hogger, from getting very up close to the scene of the crime.
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Greenpoint Terminal Warehouses: Ra’s Lair
Ra is the international man of mystery that made GTW his home. A large man with a tattooed face and well versed anarchists knowledge of survival, mere words will never be able to describe this man or myth.
This was his lair at the top of GTW Area 3.
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Greenpoint Terminal Warehouses: Santa Attacks.
The Sick Santa Explorathon (SSE) was a rather ridiculous Santacon-afterparty held in 2003. The grand excuse for this utterly stupid evening was simple: Santa is the ultimate trespasser. He breaks into billions of homes. Santa is significantly more bad-ass than anyone you know.
It also helps that no cop wants to be the one seen arresting Santa for you know, just doing his job…
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Greenpoint Terminal Market: The Night Raid
The guard that was usually on duty had finally disappeared… so you know what happened next. I’ll just let the photos say it all.
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Greenpoint Terminal Warehouse Collapse Zone
I remember 2004. It was springtime, and A & P were in town once again. These guys are a little more on the daring side, and they hadn’t seen the insanity that was the Greenpoint Terminal Warehouses just yet, so off we went.
We started on the south side of the facility and worked our way northward and upward, climbing the most deformed stairs, skywalks and rooftops we could find. Along the way we ran into Ra, the squatter who’s turf these buildings was. We ended the night hanging out with him at the top of a building which had just about entirely collapsed. The only way to get to this spot was to go through a different building and come out on a rusted fire escape to walk into the next door where you could stand and stare down at oblivion itself.
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GTW aerial Photos, Adventure Maps, and Salvaged Loot
It’s hard to describe the adventures that were had at Greenpoint Terminal without a view of the whole complex. So let’s take a look:
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Greenpoint Terminal Graffiti Room
Greenpoint terminal was a big enough set of buildings that you could go over and over and over and still find new things. On this night we accessed a room that looked as though a squatter was living in it. Upon closer inspection though it appears the room was used as a local hang out for kids growing up in the area in the 1980s, and judging from the style of graffiti, may later have been used by some punk rock squatters.
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