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Nevele Grand. The remnants of a luxurious resort that saw its peak in the 1970s and 1980s has been abandoned since 2009, leaving behind the wreckage of both the hotel and a beautiful ice skating ...
- Old Letchworth Village Cemetery
Along Call Hollow Road in Rockland County, New York, ......
- 13 Abandoned Places in New York
Secret Apartment in the Fort Washington Library. This...
- Old Letchworth Village Cemetery
- Sleight Family Graveyard. The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.
- Abandoned Redbird. A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.
- Calvert Vaux Cove. This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.
- 'Jumping Jack' Power Plant. A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.
- Jackson Sanatorium
- Wells Falls
- New York State Inebriate Asylum
- Bayley Seton Hospital
- Charles Town USA Mall
- New York City Farm Colony
- Red Hook Grain Terminal
- Glenwood Power Plant
- Smallpox Memorial Hospital
- Al-Tech Steel
42.56852, -77.68977 History: Nathanial Bingham constructed the structure for the first time in 1854. He believed that the waters had “healing” qualities, so he built the Jackson as “Dansville Water Cure Facility” as a spa, but business was slow, and he fell ill, so he sold the land to Dr. Jackson, a major believer in hydrotherapy. He renamed The Ja...
42.43356, -76.48514 History: Originally, the property was home to a grist mill developed in the 1880s by James and John E. Van Natta. This is the same Van Natta family that assisted in the building of Ithaca Gun Works on the Ithaca Falls site. The mill was superseded in 1893 by a pumping station that used the same dam. The station provided drinking...
42.10647, -75.86541 History: The New York State Inebriate Asylum, originated in 1854 by Joseph Edward Turner, was America’s first facility dedicated to the medical treatment of alcoholism. Construction on the building, designed by architect Isaac Gale Perry, began in 1858. In 1879, the structure was turned into a Chronic Insane Asylum. It was later...
42.79134, -73.66367 History: Bayley Seton Hospital, located in Staten Island’s Stapleton borough, was founded in 1831 as the Marine Hospital Service. In 2000, the hospital was given over to Saint Vincent’s Medical Catholic Center, which declared bankruptcy in 2003 and soon shuttered. Bayley Seton’s current campus was built around the Marine Hospita...
43.08945, -75.1839 History: Genesee is one of the tougher locations in Connecticut to explore due to its remote location. The ancient remains of Genesee are all that is left of an abandoned Colonial settlement. The story goes that the settlers were initially headed to New York when their wagon wheel broke. With no way to move forward, they settled ...
40.59451, -74.13794 History: The Staten Island Farm Colony, which has been abandoned for nearly 40 years, is now a haunting reminder of its dark and tragic past. According to AbandonedNYC, the Farm Colony’s dilapidated structures are shrouded in trees and vines and are only visible from November to May in the heart of Greenbelt’s beautiful forest. ...
40.66943, -74.0064 History: THE RED HOOK Grain Elevator is a behemoth of an antique on the Brooklyn waterfront, a relic from the golden age of grain shipping. This century-old remnant stands alone at the mouth of the Gowanus Canal, its industrial sisters (the Todd Shipyard and Revere Sugar Refinery) having been dismantled, but it was never very fun...
40.95152, -73.8993 History: The Glenwood/Yonkers power station, linked with the New York Central and Hudson River Railroads, is located seven miles north of Manhattan Island. The plant was developed by Minnesota-based architects Reed and Stern as a result of an act established after 1900 to electrify New York’s metropolitan railroads. Because elect...
40.75162, -73.95959 History: Cities began to make efforts at the end of the 1800s to keep smallpox patients separate from the rest of the population. Fortunately for New Yorkers, the entire city is an archipelago. So, in 1856, the city established the Renwick Smallpox Hospital, which was fully isolated from the rest of the neighborhood by waterways...
42.71295, -73.7213 History: The properties have only been used for the manufacturing of stainless steel and activities related to the production of stainless steel. The site was developed for this purpose in 1910. Disposal of coal ash from early furnaces; storage and distribution of fuel oil; storage including the use of diverse acids for pickling ...
Mar 27, 2024 · It remains New York City’s only landmarked ruin and one of its easy-to-reach abandoned places. 12. Staten Island Boat Graveyard. Located in Rossville, Staten Island, the Staten Island Boat ...
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- World’s Fair Grounds. Both the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs were held in Flushing Meadows in Queens. Though most of the structures were intended to be temporary, plenty remains for you to explore.
- Smallpox Hospital. Roosevelt Island—located in the East River between Manhattan and Queens—once housed people who had been shunned by the rest of society, including criminals, debtors, and those with mental illness.
- Ellis Island Hospital Complex. There is a lot more to Ellis Island than the Main Building, which houses the museum and the iconic Registry Room. But because the preservation and renovation of these structures is so costly, much of the rest of the island has been sitting in ruins for decades.
- Fort Totten. Located in the Bay Terrace neighborhood of Queens, Fort Totten is a favorite spot for urban explorers. The focal point is the Civil War fortress with striking views of the waterfront, but there are other sites to see, including officers’ housing and a 19th-century artillery battery.
Oct 20, 2023 · Abandoned in: 1965. Find it: 80 Halleck St, Brooklyn. The Red Hook Grain Terminal was envisioned as a key part of Brooklyn’s waterfront, but just three years after its construction critics wrote ...
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Secret Apartment in the Fort Washington Library. This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system. New York, New York.
