Did you know the origin story of the nuclear bomb began deep under Manhattan, and became a secret abandoned exploring spot?
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NYC specific explorations
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Fulton Fish Market
The long abandoned ‘New Market’ building has final met a most disturbing of ends.
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Parkway Hospital
Parkway hospital, located in Forest Hills was the only privately owned hospital in New York City. It was forced to close by the New York State.
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Kings County Building G
On January 31st, 2015, a massive fire ripped through a warehouse on the Brooklyn waterfront that contained troves of government records. Some of these were records from Building G – one of NYC’s most notorious psych ward. This highly suspicious fire involved an early morning FDNY response to a small fire, which rekindled and exploded into a full 7 alarm blaze after firefighters left.
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Exploring the abandoned LIC Fresh Direct site.
During the first week of March, 2020, the final bricks of the old Fresh Direct warehouse in L.I.C. came tumbling down. This building had a long history, and the future of this now cleared site is unknown (for the moment).
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Brooklyn Navy Yard building 128.
Trivia time: what is the one building in NYC that not only had a train track running through it, but was also used to build entire sections of legendary U.S. battleships?
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Il-Makiage: LIC’s forgotten cosmetics company
Il-Makiage was a pioneering, NYC grown cosmetics company. Founded in 1972, the company operated out of a gritty unlabeled warehouse on Davis street in L.I.C. Their neighbors included the Cosola Contractors workshop (which at the time was used by a Hispanic newspaper), and the far better known Neptune Meter Company, whose buildings became the legendary 5ptz graffiti gallery.
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The fall of 5ptz last neighbors
Davis street in LIC is one of the many short, dead end streets that until recently, time forgot.
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From Conrail to Crusty: NYC’s touring abandoned locomotive.
It seems our favorite resident ‘abandoned’ locomotive still lives.
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