March 5, 2024
October 16, 2023
On the way home, I had to hit another sprawling abandoned campus, missing their proximity dearly. I stopped at Letchworth Village in Rockland County. The foliage was gorgeous.
July 7, 2023
On the way back to the Brooklyn area, a quick stop off my to-do list… heading over to an abandoned bowling alley before there is nothing much left. The alleys were completely ripped up, stacked haphazardly about the floor. Stray pins, balls and bowling shoes occasionally illuminated by my flashlight, Read more…
Dropped in on Middletown State Hospital’s Vocational Center on a snowy Monday. It is in a sorry state, with many rooms having deep puddles and loud downpours of precipitation flowing from the roof. Let us look while it is still here… There are like 3 pool tables in this room Read more…
August 30, 2022
I had a very specific goal when I headed to Greycourt Prison/Camp Laguardia in Chester, New York. I wanted to see more of it since my last visit was so quick and get a general sense if access points were consistent or not. The path I had walked on my Read more…
July 4, 2022
The Pines Resort in Fallsburg, New York suffered the same fate as other large resorts in the Borscht Belt in the Catskills. The advent of leisure air travel, a well connected interstate system of roads, and the repeated change of ownership has left the once 96-acres dilapidated. On a brief Read more…
April 7, 2022
Though I often hit the road on my own, it isn’t too long until I start encountering characters who seem placed in my path deliberately, who contribute pleasant tangents of concentrated humanity out of the woodwork in passing. Perhaps it is of my own manifesting, drawing out from the periphery Read more…
April 6, 2022
In Orange County, New York sits 258 acres of ruin: the once Greycourt Prison, the once Camp Laguardia. Greycourt Prison, built in 1918 by the City of New York, was for women only. The farm colony 90 minutes north of New York City served to provide “physical, mental and moral Read more…
December 27, 2021
After discovering this bowling alley by chance in a blind exploration, I knew I had to come back with my tripod. You see the room is pitch black except by the doorway, which gave away the function of the dark space with the characteristic seating and bowling shoes strewn about. Read more…
October 2, 2021
All of the photographs I snapped at Rockland State Hospital this past weekend could be oil paintings, dabbed texture, concentrated light source, chiaroscuro… Having not checked in for some time, the overgrowth around the relatively easy to access staff quarters was difficult to tip-toe through. I’ll return soon, Rockland, and Read more…
Last time I checked in on Letchworth Village a few weeks ago, I meant to hit the interior of the buildings on Ridge Road, adjacent to the golf course. Wanting to make my quick trip slightly north even more worthwhile, I added more to my Letchworth count… though so much Read more…
September 4, 2021
While I attempt to get my head in the game of returning to what will likely be the most ridiculous school year of my career, enjoy the happenstance exploration of this abandoned school in upstate New York.
You may have heard of David Abercrombie by way of of Abercrombie & Fitch, though he has nothing to do with the brand since 1907. Prior to 1907 he had established the brand of sporting equipment for the elite and very wealthy drawing from his many years of working as Read more…
August 28, 2021
August 27, 2021
Since I had a car, I thought I’d check in on Letchworth Village‘s grounds. Because when the sun blazes the temperature into the 90’s, nothing is more satisfying then slinking around putrid abandoned decay. To follow, the current state of things–in four parts. This is part 1: Congregation B’nai Israel.
August 24, 2021
It was a lovely and invigorating hike up (and down) to the abandoned ski lifts of the now-defunct Cortina Valley Ski Resort in Haines Falls, New York. Requiring quite a bit of bushwhacking, the hike was a bit of an adventure including hidden deep puddles of soaking ground and unknown Read more…
August 22, 2021
Stumbling upon magnificent decaying remains almost blindly, the enormous spaces we entered in Colonie, New York, north of Albany, were mind-blowing in scale. The rain, though a nuisance, made for slick breaks of texture and reflection. To follow, some of my favorite shots from three separate structures. That hole though… Read more…
July 11, 2021
Based on my experience, sanatoriums–hospitals that treat patients with Tuberculosis which was once thought to be cured with fresh air and sunlight–carry a lighter psychic energy than the ruins of sanitariums, typically to care for the mentally ill. I’m not challenging google search results that ultimately claim both to be Read more…
July 10, 2021
Was passing this place, previously called Moon Wink Hotel, on the way to Vermont and had to pull in. It’s in sorry shape, with a tremendous amount of mold festering within. But I still day dreamed of owning it and decorating it. I have those fantasies a lot. I do Read more…
May 31, 2021
On the way back south from my Memorial Day road trip I stopped in on Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital‘s ruins. On my last visit, I was taken back by the ease of exploration and the dynamic decay. This time, after heavy rain, the prospect of climbing into a building that Read more…
It wasn’t sitting well with me that though I explored Homowack Lodge a great deal of time, I didn’t find the bowling alley! So I stopped by on the way home determined to find it. I did, finally… after some dead ends and amidst my giving myself consoling thoughts. It Read more…
May 30, 2021
The accessibility of large scale abandoned ruins fluctuates. Though there are plenty of photographs of The Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane on the world wide web, the property is currently owned by the New York State Corrections Office. It’s secured. And even photographing the exterior is a concern. But Read more…