DUMBO – Scouting NY

Brooklyn’s Mansion on the East River

ByScout February 23, 2010January 7, 2014

I was walking down Hudson Ave today in Brooklyn’s Vinegar Hill neighborhood when I realized I’d never taken any of the roads leading east. Why not? I guess I’ve always just assumed everything in that corner of Brooklyn to be ConEd-type utility plants, never a good place to do any sort of filming. Always looking…

Abandoned | Brooklyn

The Slow Death of Admiral’s Row

ByScout January 20, 2009January 8, 2014

If you were traveling down Flushing Ave around 1904, this was what you would have seen: Jump forward in time to 2009, and this is what remains: Admiral’s Row is a series of dilapidated yet gorgeous Second Empire-style mansions once used to house officers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Some of them date back to…