Examining the long forgotten history of a Central Queens industrial zone, with one abandoned warehouse in particular.
NYC Specific Industrial sites
Examining the long forgotten history of a Central Queens industrial zone, with one abandoned warehouse in particular.
Recently, our google map of abandoned buildings around NYC has reached 75 locations. There is a lot to be learned from what eventually became of these properties.
This summer, the abandoned remains of Moore McCormack’s Brooklyn facility are being wiped off the face of the planet.
One more of LIC’s abandoned warehouse relics is not long for this earth.
Here is something from deep in the LTV archives, a very rare walk-through of the Todd Shipyard, during the short time between it’s abandonment and redevelopment into an Ikea store. For a whole lot more on the history of this shipyard, check out this 10 year old post we did on it.
Located in the center of the 7 line route through L.I.C., this old factory rooftop offers surprising views of the neighborhood.
Eppen-Smith building to the right LIC’s forgotten coffee factory.
On a property once owned by Owens-Illinois, another not-so-sorely-needed tall self storage facility takes its shape.
Greenpoint Terminal is the gift that keeps on giving, even a decade later.
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.
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.
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.
One of LIC’s oldest standing factories, the Blanchard Building, has a great view of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The curious case of the building and miniature railroad that was planned next to the Montauk Cutoff, yet never built.
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