NYC Industrial Ruins

History Constructed around 1950, this industrial building was located at 11th street and 46th ave – right across the street from the print shop that was recently demolished and replaced with condos. The last business to use this factory was Shine Electronics.

The Staten Island boat graveyard needs no introduction. What was once an obscure, unknown corner of NYC’s most neglected borough gained plenty of internet fame over the last 15 years.

4 years ago we posted about an abandoned locomotive, a 1950s era neglected engine buried deep behind rows of freight cars at a local bustling yard. This locomotive still exists, and is looking worse than ever.

“OMFG lookit’ deez LTV guys exploring gas stations WTF! Zexor’s Gas! For Real?!”

This is the story of the life and death of a steam powered Tugboat. The first time I laid eyes on the Feeney Tugboat, it was moored along Staten Islands’ north shore. It was the winter of 2003 and I was on a day long exploring trip with graffiti artist friend Tommy Rebel. We were […]

We’ve been spoiling you all lately with posts full of deep location research and explicit details on various well known abandoned buildings, so it’s time for a post that leaves everything to the imagination.

Red Hook contained one of NYC’s tallest abandoned industrial buildings, with one of the best graffiti galleries and a rooftop view unparalleled in awesomeness. Today, The New York Dock building is being converted into apartments.

In 2003 me and Rebel SC came across this very long abandoned Staten Island Rapid Transit car.

You’ve seen the graffiti walls on the outside, but now we take you inside. This is 5 pointz, explored. Another LTV Exclusive. It’s more than just a name of a building in Long Island City. It is an idea, a symbol, and unfortunately, soon to be nothing but a memory. As explorers, it was our […]

Certified Concrete owned a ready mix plant in LIC, ‘Under the Kosciuszko Bridge’ according to the NY Times.

In 2005, I took a ride to the Bronx to check out the abandoned Transit Ready Mix facility located along the Bronx River. Transit Ready Mix was owned by Biff Halloran, who also owned Certified Concrete (thus the title to this article).

Growing up in NYC in the 70s and 80s, kids would joke about what would happen if you crossed the mafia. ‘You’ll end up in the east river, with concrete shoes, sleeping with the fishes’. As with all humor, the jokes were based in reality. The ready mix industry in NYC was, for decades, closely […]

Under a highway in the Bronx, one might find this curious set of seemingly abandoned railroad cars. These aren’t just any railroad cars though.

Two New York Cross Harbor Railroad locomotives sat abandoned along 1st avenue in Brooklyn for many years, from roughly the late 1990s until 2006.This is their story.

Terminal Cold Storage is one of my new favorite buildings in NYC. Located on the far west side of Manhattan, this former warehouse and nightclub space represents one of NYC’s most unique buildings.