Down on the Gowanus, a hot tip lead us to a rare NYC ‘abando treat: Ferrara Bros Abandoned Concrete Plant.
Category: NYC ruins
NYC specific explorations
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The Ferrara Bros Abandoned Gowanus Concrete Plant
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Farewell, Prince of Pavement: a ‘bando explorer party
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.
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Astoria’s Abandoned Funeral Home
For a hot minute in 2011, Astoria had its very own abandoned funeral home.
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LIC’s obscure, abandoned LIRR Bogies 2017, RIP
This past week, the LIRR finally began scrapping their abandoned bogies. So just what the hell is a bogie, anyway?
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The Laurel Hill Houses, demolished to make way for the new Kosciuszko Bridge
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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Abandoned Coca-Cola Distribution Center & LIRR Glendale Junction, (Queens) NY
Examining the long forgotten history of a Central Queens industrial zone, with one abandoned warehouse in particular.
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Panasonic / Bergdorf Goodman Abandoned Warehouse
One more of LIC’s abandoned warehouse relics is not long for this earth. -
Rare walk-through video of the abandoned Todd Shipyard
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.
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Brooklyn’s Abandoned 68th and 75th Police Stations
Along the dark edges of Brooklyn lay two abandoned and derelict police stations. Their fate is, as of this writing, completely uncertain.
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