Inside the Gowanus Batcave with Abandoned NYC
Introducing our new column Abandoned NYC by Will Ellis, a NYC-based photographer, filmmaker and educator, who has been documenting the abandoned places and forgotten histories from across the five...
View ArticleThe Abandoned Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens
Inside Creedmoor Psychiatric Center Creedmoor Psychiatric Center’s Building 25 was once a haven for New York City’s cast-out mentally ill, but today it houses a much more reviled and equally...
View ArticleHope and Uncertainty in Post-Sandy Staten Island
Eleven weeks after Hurricane Sandy, much of New York City has reassumed a state of normalcy, but as the headlines fade some victims are still taking their first halting steps toward recovery, settling...
View ArticleChecking in to the Abandoned Grossinger’s Resort in the Catskills
Inside Grossinger’s Catskills Resort in Liberty, NY Waist-high grasses choke back the yawning entrances of the Jennie G. Hotel, whose toppled fence serves more as an invitation than a barrier. Here in...
View ArticleNew SHoP Plans for the Domino Sugar Refinery
In the late 19th century, Brooklyn was responsible for over half of the country’s sugar production, with Havemeyers & Elders Sugar Company leading the pack of over 20 major refineries that called...
View ArticleInside the Domino Sugar Refinery
The cavernous interior of the Domino Sugar Refinery’s Raw Sugar Warehouse. Situated on an eleven-acre parcel of waterfront in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge, the derelict Domino Sugar Refinery...
View ArticleRepainting Resilience in the Freedom Tunnel
The occasional Amtrak train interrupts the silence of the tunnel. Even in New York’s most isolated spaces, you’re walking in the footsteps of multitudes. Off-limits under Riverside Park, skimming 2.5...
View ArticleInside The West Side Highway’s Lost Diner
The “Lost Diner” at 357 West Street New York City isn’t known for its roadside attractions or its motor inns, but along the West Side Highway, you can still find shades of the open road. What could be...
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A Baseball Graveyard in Queens’ Forgotten Railroad
An overgrown overpass at Union Turnpike and Woodhaven Boulevard, part of the proposed Queensway project. Abandoned for half a century, the old Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Railroad is...
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San Francisco’s Spooky Abandoned Sutro Baths
Crumbling stairways at San Francisco’s Sutro Baths. The Sutro Baths opened to the public in 1896, when the west side of San Francisco was a vast region of all-but-unpopulated sand dunes. The...
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Ruins of the 1964 World’s Fair at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
The empty observation towers of the New York Pavilion hover over Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. In Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the oddball ruins of the “Tent of Tomorrow” are fading into yesterday....
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Inside the Red Hook Grain Terminal with AbandonedNYC
The Grain Terminal was emptied of its last bushel in 1965. It’s been nearly fifty years since a freighter docked at the Red Hook Grain Terminal; now black mold overspreads its concrete silos like a...
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Abandoned NYC: Getting Lost on North Brother Island [Photos]
A tuberculosis pavilion crowns the treetops of North Brother Island like an Aztec ruin. Most New Yorkers have never heard of North Brother Island, but they should take comfort in the fact that new...
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Inside Gravesend’s Abandoned “Secret Park” in Brooklyn
An abandoned boat wades in a narrow cove between Calvert Vaux Park and the vacant lot. It seems like every square inch of New York City has been categorized, labeled, and filled beyond capacity. But if...
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Then & Now: Brian Rose Captures the Meatpacking District’s “Metamorphosis” in...
Washington Street 1985 © Brian Rose The swank boutiques, high-end galleries, and ritzy accommodations of today’s Meatpacking District are a far cry from the seedy desolation that dominated the area in...
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Photos Inside Harlem’s Abandoned PS 186, To Become Boys and Girls Club
Editor Note: With the news that Harlem’s long abandoned PS is finally going to be converted into a Boys and Girls Club and apartment rentals, we turned to our resident Abandoned NYC columnist here at...
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Inside The Haunted Abandoned Wyndcliffe Mansion in NY’s Hudson Valley
The abandoned Wyndclyffe Mansion broods over the Hudson River in Rhinebeck, New York. Photo by Will Ellis/Abandoned NYC The Hudson River Valley is home to more than its share of formidable ruins, but...
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Inside the Gowanus Batcave with Abandoned NYC
Introducing our new column Abandoned NYC by Will Ellis, a NYC-based photographer, filmmaker and educator, who has been documenting the abandoned places and forgotten histories from across the five...
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The Abandoned Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens
Inside Creedmoor Psychiatric Center Creedmoor Psychiatric Center’s Building 25 was once a haven for New York City’s cast-out mentally ill, but today it houses a much more reviled and equally...
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Abandoned Bronx Borough Courthouse Closed for 37 Years Opens With No Longer...
The Old Bronx Borough Courthouse, the site of No Longer Empty’s latest exhibition. Built between 1905-1914, the Old Bronx Borough Courthouse at 878 Brook Street has been shuttered for the last 37...
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