Updated with car models and years, thanks to diligent Scouting NY readers! Let me know if I got any wrong! The other day, I was walking under the old abandoned subway tracks on Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn:
Today (Monday) is the FINAL DAY to vote for a Partners in Preservation site! Click here to vote now – these places need every vote they can get. A few months ago, I was scouting out in Flatbush, Brooklyn, when I happened to walk by Erasmus Hall High School.
This article was produced in participation with the Partners in Preservation program, which will be awarding $3 million in grants to historic sites across New York City based on your votes – so go vote now! Then, tell me who you voted for for a chance to win a $50 AmEx gift card! This past…
Standing outside the Brooklyn Army Terminal’s “Building B,” you might assume it to be just another of the many warehouses scattered throughout the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. But Building B has a secret…
After I wrote about about the amusingly named Lois Lane in Staten Island, reader Brian K. wrote to me about another great one… “Tennis Court,” in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Get it? Tennis Court? How are these slipping by??
A couple of years ago, I wrote about a little boarded up storefront at the corner of North 5th & Berry in Williamsburg:
This is the entrance to New York City’s ghost airport: Floyd Bennett Field.
Well, there’s certainly no hill…
I don’t believe in ghosts, but if there’s one book that has ever made me wonder, it’s Grave’s End by Brooklyn native Elaine Mercado. Seriously – this thing gave me chills.
Scouting NY is having a Halloween contest in which you submit a picture of your favorite local eerie property and win tickets to NY’s infamous Nightmare Haunted House! This is what my submission would be… This is what I imagine it looks like when a house possessed by evil opens one eye to stare at…