I first wrote about Hoffman Grove back in 2006 when I explored the area after one of the homes there was listed in the paper for sale. $200K for a house in Wayne? Yeah, what’s the catch? Oh yeah… constant flooding. Read the original post for the full story, but I found much had changed [...]
Archive for the ‘Urban Exploration’ Category
4 Mar
If you know nothing about NBI, here is my original entry detailing the long and varied history of this unassuming island in the Bronx River. it’s well worth a read and I won’t repeat it here because this is about my own journey exploring the island. I don’t recall exactly where I first heard about [...]
11 Dec
Th abandoned townhouses above the Great Falls
Over the summer A friend and I explored the Great Falls and Colt Factory, then he took me to something unexpected. What appeared to be full constructed, ready to move in townhouses, that were completely abandoned. You can read the entire story here (which is how my friend found out about it) but the short [...]
3 Jul
Coast Guard selling off two lighthouses to the top bidder
they need a lot of work however. About 5-6 years ago I convinced the Coast Guard to let me go w/them on one of their spring maitenance runs to all the lighthouses in the delaware bay so i got to see them and some of them you have to climb a ladder from a rocking [...]
11 Jun
Two amazing military finds
Find #1: These guys snuck aboard some abandoned naval vessels out SF. and we thought we were badass sneaking into Greystone. My only complaint is: you snuck aboard an abandoned Destroyer and you only post a dozen pictures? WTF dude! Find #2: An abandoned military base (Vozdvizhenka Air Base apparently). I can’t be sure because [...]
31 May
Welcome IO9 and NY Scout readers!
I knew when i got up this morning that NY Scout had visited the jet in the woods because my site notifies me whenever someone else links to me. He was quite gracious enough to comment about my site a few times in his post (which I appreciate, as opposed to him just saying this [...]
12 Apr
The Belle Meade Depot
The GSA-Belle Mead Depot was located in Hillsborough and had several purposes thru its history. It was primary a warehouse and there were numerous railroad lines running into the facility. During WWarII, the facility was used as sort of 20thc Guantanamo, housing Italian POW’s. After the Vietnam war, the property was then turned over to [...]
7 Mar
excellent post about the ruins of Cliffdale Manor in the NJ Palisades
I’ve done a fair amount of research on the NJ palisades and I’ve visted all the ruins but I never knew much about the largest of the ruins in the park. This website not only runs down the history but has some awesome old pictures that show what it was like when it was in [...]
5 Mar
Someone has cut a hole in the fuselage of the jet in the woods
I have covered the jet in the woods several times here on my blog. It generated quite a debate over what kind of plane it was until a local geocacher located the model # on the wing. I visit periodically and the last time was about a year ago when I went showed it to [...]
15 Dec
Ford payouts don’t make up for the damage they inflicted
Anyone who lives in the Bergen County area knows that Ford motor company fucked the town of Ringwood and the indian tribe that lives there. Over a period of 3 decades they dumped paint and toxic sludge into old mines and sometimes along the sides of the roads in Ringwood. The materials came from a [...]
