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Inside the Loew’s 46th St. Theater
A fire escape like this one on a windowless structure is a sure sign that a building was once a movie theater. Some of the grandest and gaudiest heights of American architecture took form in the movie...
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Inside the Jumping Jack Pump House
The main floor of the “Jumping Jack Pump House” Lately the lack of abandoned buildings in the five boroughs has had me ruin-hunting on the distant shores of New Jersey and the Hudson River Valley. But...
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Murder in Mariner’s Marsh
Mariner’s Marsh, on Staten Island’s North Shore. At a bend in Staten Island’s North Shore where the Arthur Kill gives way to the Kill van Kull, there’s a strange, desolate landscape that’s equal parts...
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Dredging the Archives + May 7th Library Lecture
The spooky Walloomsac Inn in Benington, VT is actually occupied as a private residence. On Thursday, May 7th at 6:30 PM I’ll be presenting at the Mid-Manhattan Branch of the New York Public Library as...
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The Sea View Children’s Hospital
Forested views from a lower floor day room at Sea View Children’s Hospital. At the turn of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was the second leading cause of death in the city and a major world health...
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Doing Time in the Old Essex County Jail
The Old Essex County Jail (Prints Available) Many of the most remarkable abandoned buildings loom over their surroundings and dominate the landscape, but Newark’s Old Essex County Jail is barely there....
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Inside Rockland Psychiatric Center
An abandoned section of the former Rockland State Hospital, now known as Rockland Psychiatric Center.In 1923, the New York state legislature passed a $50 million bond issue for the construction of new...
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Time Traveling in the Children’s Ward: Rockland Psychiatric Center
Pink walls distinguish the girl’s ward of the former Rockland State Hospital children’s building. Old buildings have many lives. Often the objects left behind in a modern ruin only reflect a place’s...
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Port Reading’s McMyler Coal Dumper
The abandoned McMyler Coal Dumper in Port Reading, NJ There’s a stretch of the Arthur Kill between Rossville, Staten Island and Port Reading, New Jersey that’s something of an abandoned wonderland....
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Navigating the Sailor’s Infirmary
The Sailor’s Infirmary In 1831, “An Act to Provide for Sick and Disabled Seamen” was passed by the New York State Legislature. A tract of farmland was acquired for the purpose, and by 1837, a proper...
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