Did you know the origin story of the nuclear bomb began deep under Manhattan, and became a secret abandoned exploring spot?
NYC specific explorations
Did you know the origin story of the nuclear bomb began deep under Manhattan, and became a secret abandoned exploring spot?
The long abandoned ‘New Market’ building has final met a most disturbing of ends.
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.
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 […]
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).
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?
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 […]
Davis street in LIC is one of the many short, dead end streets that until recently, time forgot.
It seems our favorite resident ‘abandoned’ locomotive still lives.
Down on the Gowanus, a hot tip lead us to a rare NYC ‘abando treat: Ferrara Bros Abandoned Concrete Plant.
This place was begging for a good explorer party. A proper send off for a facility that literally helped build the NYC we know today.
For a hot minute in 2011, Astoria had its very own abandoned funeral home.
This past week, the LIRR finally began scrapping their abandoned bogies. So just what the hell is a bogie, anyway?
NOTE: This story was originally published on an earlier version of this site, in April of 2011. The actual exploration took place in December of 2010. There’s an update at the end.
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