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Wired shares a photo gallery of abandoned spaces in NYC that should appeal to anyone who's ever watched post-apocalyptic films like "Escape from New York" or played games like "Enslaved" or "Crysis 3":
Will Ellis ignored his first “no trespassing” sign in 2012 when he ducked through the fence surrounding an old warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn. He started photographing the rotting interior and was immediately hooked.
“I’m not a daredevil at all, but the first time I snuck in, there was that rush of adrenaline and sense of adventure,” Ellis says. “I was also fascinated by the visuals inside. As a kid I loved all things creepy—Halloween was my favorite holiday and that’s something I never grew out of.”
From the creepy to the bizarre, Ellis’ exploration of the derelict and decrepit has lead him to document nearly 50 locations across New York City and beyond. The images chronicle forsaken schools, asylums, and forts, along with railroads and waterfronts. He updates his popular blog constantly, and a collection of 150 images has been published in Abandoned NYC.
I have had my eye on the Gowanus Batcave for years, with intentions to convert it into a real batcave. Sadly, my plans to become a billionaire have not panned out yet...
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2015, @01:05PM
There are sections of that city as big as all of Brooklyn that are more abandoned than not.
Even some of the parts that aren't abandoned look more like a bombed-out third-world hellhole than a western city.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2015, @04:13PM
These are fascinating in so many ways. Aside from the amazing array and beauty of architecture I quite like the giant "outsource to detroit" banner. Too bad nobody is doing it. Just imagine how convenient it would be to have High-Tech fabs in the US in nearly-free buildings next to where the engineers that design production equipment live. Cheap local labor, plenty of nearby water, central continental location. Hell, even massive server farms an order of magnitude bigger than anything we have ever seen could be done with those buildings with easy access to cooling water that would make coastal cities blush.
http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit [marchandmeffre.com]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/jul/19/detroit-goes-bankrupt-in-pictures [theguardian.com]
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/abandoned-detroit-photos [all-that-is-interesting.com]
http://zfein.com/photography/detroit/ [zfein.com]