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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Category: NYC Industrial Ruins
NYC Specific Industrial sites
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Greenpoint Terminal Warehouses: After the Fire
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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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Flushing Light Industry Center
History
The massive Flushing Light Industry Center warehouse was located right between the LIRR Port Washington branch, and the NYC Subway 7 line, just east of Flushing Creek. It was originally owned by Con Edison, and likely used as a storage facility for cables and light poles. It featured a massive warehouse building, along with a shed by the creek and security booths at two gates. There were also 2 railroad sidings on the property, diverging from a single switch off the westbound Port Washington track.Con Ed sold the property to a group that used it for warehousing goods imported from Asia and perhaps even some sweat shops. By 2003 all of the businesses located in the Flushing Light Industry Center kicked out.
The Flushing Light Industry Center was perhaps best known to graffiti artists, who bombed the rooftops facing the 7 Train just before the subway enters the tunnel into Main street terminal.
Adventure
Sneaking in here was generally easy. There was one guard at the front gate, but he was a lazy bastard, as most minimum wage security people are. It was a big property, so sliding through a broken gate at the rear always worked.The buildings were big, but there wasn’t much to see. The best find in this whole place was a pile of leftover boxes containing fake designer bags. We poured through them and looted the passable ones to regift to girls.
Update 2013:
This building didn’t last long. It was bulldozed soon after these photos were taken. The entire plot of land was turned into high rise condo apartments with big box retail stores on the first floor. Target and BJs moved in. With it’s destruction, NYC lost one more piece of it’s storied industrial history. -
Sucrose/Revere Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn
Intro:
The Sucrose/Revere Sugar Refinery was Brooklyn’s ‘Other’ abandoned sugar mill. Located in Red Hook, it was bulldozed out of existence by 2006. Secured up until the very end, very few ‘explorers’ and next to no graffiti artists ever breached it’s walls. We did though. Of course we did. Because it’s expected.
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