Abandoned General Motors Plant

GGP: 3rd Aug 2005 - 14:54 GMT

Ooooooooooooh. Love those first 2 shots mucho mucho--they gimme the bloooos.

elaine: 3rd Aug 2005 - 14:55 GMT

swimming pools and cars, and abandoned stuff - i'm feeling jg ballard coming on

Peter: 3rd Aug 2005 - 14:59 GMT

i really wish i could have gotten further into the site, as opposed to just snapping a few shots from the other side of the fence. you cant really tell in teh photos, but there is alot of debris still around, mostly metal armatures and structural hardware sticking out of the pools and cement floors.

i heard this factory made engines, specifically for cadillacs.

regardless, the sunken areas of the factory floor have now filled with water, like so many abandoned ponds. you can still make out stenciled signage around the sirface of the pools. i suppose those were areas that required workers to be below the level of the assembly line in order to do their bit of assembly...

this place is largely a mystery to me still. i'll definitely be going back one of these days!

GGP: 3rd Aug 2005 - 16:59 GMT

there are probably Cadillac-bullfrog hybrids living in the factory floor pools! coooool!!

_flyonthewall_: 3rd Aug 2005 - 17:29 GMT

Yeah, the big three are on their knees. This photo reminds me of what half of Detroit looks like.

misspick: 3rd Aug 2005 - 17:29 GMT

Ahh! Half my family worked at that plant! I love these pics!

Xydexx: 3rd Aug 2005 - 17:49 GMT

Wow, there is so nothing left of that.

I went on a class trip there back when I was in elementary school.

kc: 3rd Aug 2005 - 18:42 GMT

boy did I want to go there when it was still around...there, or maybe the one near suffern (or wherever 17/the Thruway intersect), where there's now a hotel that looks like Darth Vader...my father had a great record album, corporate PR, jazz, called Music to Make Volkswagens by, or something like that. It wasn't so much the music as the album's great pictures of Beetle chassis (chasses? chassises?) going in and out of the paint...anyhow, great shots, great light...

elaine: 3rd Aug 2005 - 18:53 GMT

a hotel that looks like darth vadar? kc, pic pleeeeease!!!!

Peter: 3rd Aug 2005 - 22:27 GMT

thanks... i was pleased at how they came out too, considering that i was shooting directly in to a setting sun, heh.

pillboxer: 4th Aug 2005 - 06:18 GMT

Well, that would look like Detroit except they don't like to tear down abandoned buildings. They just like to let them sit and decay to give urban explorers and graffiti artists places to poke around in.

Dubhain: 4th Aug 2005 - 20:22 GMT

Actually, IIRC, this is what was known as GM's Tarrytown Assembly Plant. This would explane the pits in the factory floor.

From GM's 2001 press release trumpeting a (defunct) development deal for the site:

"The former Tarrytown plant, one of GM's oldest assembly plants when it ceased operation in 1996, was originally built in 1899 for the production of Walker Steamers. GM purchased the plant in 1914 and began producing Chevrolet cars and trucks the following year."

The entire press release can be read at: http://www.gm.com/company/gmability/environment/plants/brownsfield_redev/roseland_062101.html

And you want abandoned factories? Screw Detroit and Lansing. Visit Flint.

Drucer: 31st Aug 2005 - 14:22 GMT

Peter, huge THANK YOU for these pictures! If you could go up there once more and maybe take even more detailed pictures, I'd be eternally grateful! If anyone has pictures of GM Tarrytown plant, please mail me! I'm very interested in the history of GM Tarrytown plant, because I own a 1966 Chevrolet Impala 2d Sport Coupe that was built in GM's Tarrytown factory! It feels GREAT to see some photos of that area where my car was built, because I live in Finland and Tarrytown is just so far away from where I live and now the plant is wrecked. I love my car and I love it's history, so thank you very much for sharing these photos with us!

If you (Peter or someone else) have some more pictures of Tarrytown plant, please contact me! email: drucer99@yahoo.com

ebaker@dhc.net: 12th Sep 2005 - 03:54 GMT

I have a 1966 Chevrolet Impala SS Conv that was built at the Tarrytown plant.I have been trying to find out if the assembly records were destroyed or were they trahsferred to another plant or to GM. Does anyone know. I'd really like to get copies.
Ed

George H.: 17th Oct 2005 - 15:05 GMT

Peter,
I can tell you from having been inside that plant, it was BIG. I went there on a class trip in the mid 70's when it was in full production. It was one of the best class trips i ever went on. I lived at 180 Beekman ave. from my appartment we could see the plant. I have alot of great memories from when that place was up and running. I was young at the time and had a few adventures on the grounds of that plant. Many of my school friends had parents that worked at that plant and unfortunately as the plant started going south soo did my friends. I will look in my photo albums and see if i can find some pictures to post on your site. I don't know if you can find any but some of the best picutes of the plant are from Kingsland Point Park, also durring the winter olympics at Lake Placid they did a fly by going north on the hudson river for the opening celebrations one of the sites they showed was the GM plant. It was short but you can defenetly tell what it was.

Drucer: 17th Dec 2005 - 01:20 GMT

Thanks George H.! You don't happen to have any old pictures of that GM plant when it was still up and running? mail me if you do: drucer99@yahoo.com

FLATDOWN: 22nd Jan 2006 - 01:15 GMT

Thanx for the pix.

I´m member of a big Pontiac Transsport Community in germany (www.pontiac-transsport.de) and also run a site about the Transsport (www.transsport.net).

As far as I know, all of our Transsports were build there in Tarrytown. If somebody got some more picture I would be very grateful for that. Pictures of the GM site today would be awsome. Maybe somebody got a few pictures showing the Tarrytown plan between 1989 and 1996?

Greetinx
FLATDOWN

FLATDOWN: 22nd Jan 2006 - 01:17 GMT

If you got some of the mentioned pictures - please let me know and mail me. You´ll find the correct mailaddress on http://www.transsport.net

Thanx

FLATDOWN

Tim: 25th Feb 2006 - 15:21 GMT

Isaiah Williams worked proudly at this plant from 1962-1989. The fact of the matter is that GM kept a roof over our head and food on the table (Loving son)

Dan Tonietti: 9th Mar 2006 - 16:39 GMT

My dad worked there from 1938 through Eastern Aircraft and went on to retire in 1982 ... one company all those years !! Ahh ... what NAFTA did to ruin this country !!! I live near where the Corvette is built today. My memories of Tarrytown are good; but brother I love that country living and the low taxes. Come see what its like !!

RonO: 23rd Mar 2006 - 03:39 GMT

I worked at this plant from 1980-1984 when we were working 3 shifts and building 300,000 cars a year. At that time GM was manufacturing the X body car which was highly in demand because of the fuel efficiency offered by these vehicles which were among the first of GM's entry into the more fuel efficient auto market during a period of escalating gas prices and increased competition from smaller less costly Japanese imports. The plant was tremendous in size. I remember conveyors layered upon conveyors. The line would put out over 60 cars per hour and I believe employment was close to 4000 at its production peak.
We used to ride bikes to deliver paychecks from the Admin building to the timekeepers office. It took 5-10 mins to get there. There were huge rail cars inside the building and the annual inventory was always a real challenge counting windshields and trim parts throughout the night. I recall the plant Manager at that time to be Bill Slachta, Controller was Leroy Jaeckle and Mark Rudman, Personnel Director Jack Powers, and Joe Dicarmine the ISG Director.

Your pictures brought back some wonderful memories with sad reminiscence of the many people whose lives were in some way impacted by what is now a barren property.

mike kane: 26th Apr 2006 - 09:13 GMT

back on its golden hinges the gate of memory swings and my heart goes into the garden and walks with the olden things

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Jim: 4th Jun 2006 - 02:57 GMT

I worked there from 1984 until the plant closed in 1996. I have a picture standing next to the very last van being built coming off of the "final line". It was a strange feeling to witness the very last day of production. Ohhhhh the demise of the American Auto business! Put many hard working families out of work and into a struggle!

Nancy: 9th Jul 2006 - 16:10 GMT

I did a search on the GM Tarrytown (now called Sleepy Hollow) site after reading an article about it in today's local Westchester County newspaper, the Journal News ("Secrets on the Hudson", http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060709/OPINION01/607090315/1151). To synopsize its status today, the place is still an undeveloped eyesore because it's an environmental nightmare (insanely high lead levels just for starters) and the locals, who have largely been left in the dark, are clamoring for information. Being a transplant to this area from Pittsburgh and a child of the 70's, I hadn't heard of this plant or its closure, but I could immediately identify with the community affects of such a thing, vis-à-vis the steel mill closures in my native area. Pictures were exactly what I was looking for, so thanks for the post, Peter. I hope this beleaguered section of the ruthlessly exploited but still mighty Hudson River rebounds soon.

History!: 23rd Jul 2006 - 14:47 GMT

This is history! Nostalgia.. I feel sad to see that the plant is ruined now. Imagine what this factory plant has given to so many people. To some, it has given great cars, to others it has given food for the family. I guess all the good things in this life has to die some day.

"Everything dies, that's a fact but maybe everything that dies someday comes back"

nanci: 11th Aug 2006 - 03:10 GMT

Great pics. Still live in tarrytown would not give it for the world. What a shame they had to close the plant down, made the town die too but like all we survived and the town is up and running again. what is to become of the GM graveyard? no one knows, all I know that they keep on building these stupid town homes that cost $$$$$$$ and they are crying that there are no money for the schools and have cut back major in sports, arts, drama, ect..... Howard Smith just gave him self a big fat raise and is not helping the public schools at all. In any event, they need to build a sams club or home depot on the gm grave site.

Flatdown: 3rd Sep 2006 - 16:00 GMT

Hi - has somebody living near Tarrytown taken some additional photos of the former plant-area? Here in Germany we have a big community with fans of the Pontiac Trans Sport which was build in Tarrytown only. Here it is a quite extraordinary car, an eyecatcher - many of us would like to have some additional information about the car and the area it came from. If you have some more photo please are so kind to send them to the webmaster of http://www.Trans-Sport.eu. Thanx a lot! :-)

American automotive history wrecked: 23rd Sep 2006 - 20:14 GMT

Why is it so that everything has to die??? This GM site is culturally important also - it already has historical value. They should have never wrecked it! What a mistake!

ralph: 5th Oct 2006 - 00:39 GMT

I also have the greatest memories of the Iron Horse. Hired as a 19 yr old I worked in soft trim and the cushion room from 1979 thru 1981. We worked 9hrs a day plus 6hrs Sat. I had more money than most of my friends and parents. I grew up in 3 very short years. Love Tarrytown

Bill C: 2nd Nov 2006 - 00:05 GMT

I worked at the tarrytown plant for 5 years when I went on layoff I moved to Belmont N.C. I have not been back.your photos make me sad I grew up in Hastins-on Hudson and we all worked at CPC Tarrytown.Working at GM was hard but fun I worked in the paint dept.Elpo.

Kelly M: 6th Nov 2006 - 19:55 GMT

I am Bill C's ex wife and I also worked at the plant and met Bill there and subsequently got married. It is such a shame to see the plant gone, I have wonderful memories of the people I worked with and the intricacies of the daily working's of the plant. We were laid off with the whole second shift in 1990. After a few years of scraping by we finally did move to NC where the job market was not suffering. I worked in the hard trim dept. and then the paint dept. I think it was in 1989 that GM spent 75 million dollars upgrading the paint dept. to being mostly robotic and sealed against dust. It was very impressive and we had several other car company executives touring the plant to see this innovative upgrade, including japanese representatives. I am very proud to be a part of GM's Tarrytown legacy and glad for all the friendships I made there, as well as the work ethic they instilled in me. Goodbye old friend!

BZZZP: 6th Nov 2006 - 23:42 GMT

p - how well fenced and patrolled is this place? i'm getting some ideas.

Håkon Ohlgren: 13th Dec 2006 - 18:04 GMT

Hi there, I live in Norway (Scandinavia that is...), and I own a 1959 Chevrolet Apache Step Side. I found out today that it was built in Tarrytown. The car was exported to Antofagasta, Chile, in 1959, and then to Norway in 2005. Sad to see that the place is abandoned.

Chevrolet Fan: 16th Feb 2007 - 21:32 GMT

Sigh, that was when AMERICAN cars were built! General Motors at its best! They don't make cars like that any more. Tarrytown cars were built with pride and they lasted long! It still makes me smile when I see some great looking Chevy that was built there at GM Tarrytown plant some thirty, fourty years ago! Those were the days.. American pride! Now we have to buy korean made crap cars.

Chevrolet Fan: 18th Feb 2007 - 16:13 GMT

New York Times - Tarrytown G.M.'s 2-Week Shutdown

Published: February 10, 1982

The General Motors Corporation has ordered a two-week shutdown of its North Tarrytown plant beginning next Monday and 4,600 employees will be laid off.

The shutdown, first announced on Feb. 2, was canceled a day later and now has been reinstated. The plant will not reopen until March 1. It is the third shutdown this year for the factory. General Motors said it will have seven assembly plants closed this week to reduce inventories.

Local resident: 10th Mar 2007 - 18:53 GMT

I live in Sleepy Hollow (renamed the year GM closed) and have watched the fight over the cleanup. Hopefully this will be the year of the ground breaking, but at 1100 units in a town of 4000 houses, it's a bit DENSE. See the proposal at www.shvillage.org / and click on the main/newsletter.

GM Tarrytown: 12th Mar 2007 - 18:52 GMT

Interesting! Turns out Sleepy Hollow (ex-Tarrytown) is quite small little town. Anyone got any photos of the GM factory when it was still operational?

Mike: 13th Mar 2007 - 17:37 GMT

i now live in boston i used to work here back in the 80's when i lived in yonkers. i worked on the assembly line in the body shop where the car is first assembled i was a floater i worked also in the hard and soft trim dept and the final line.i go back to see my father in peekskill and i go by the old plant grounds to see just a shell what great memories i had here...

T.E. Renaldi: 13th Mar 2007 - 17:52 GMT

A place of production is destroyed on the banks of the Hudson... March 10, 1999:

Sue: 3rd Apr 2007 - 04:06 GMT

I had a family member who worked at this plant and is still with GM. It was sad to see this plant destroyed. It's sad really. This plant was already around when I was born and was there a good portion of my adolescence. I don't live in Tarrytown anymore, but I've been back to visit on several occasions just to drive around and see how the town has evolved again. :)

Alec: 26th May 2007 - 03:54 GMT

I did an engineering internship there 21 years ago when I was 19. I went there this morning and viewed basically the same thing as the photos show (my first time back there). There appears to be an enviornmental clean-up firm doing studies on the property. A local business owner told me developers want to get permits to buid ahuge condo complex there.

I have to say, even when I worked there in 1986, people would talk about the prospect of GM closing the plant because the property was too old, on too valuable a property, and to expensive to maintain. I remember being there when they announced that this was the target plant for the Lumina APV (van). At the time, we were building the Ponitiac 6000 and the Buick Centry.

People in charge of the plant were Roy Roberts - Plant Manager, Bruce McNally - Production Manager, and Mr. Kiser - Manager of Industrial Engineering. The place was reported to have over 5 miles of assembly line, and actually was building a new paint shop on top of the old one because it was cheaper than pulling the old one out.

I spent my time mostly in the chassis deartment, but the paint shop was where people would actaully pass out from the heat, and be send back after te medical department revived them. I was 19 years old, ad saw everything from fist fights to Christain prayer groups during breaks.

This place was like a city under a roof. The columns throughout the structure (the stubs of which you see in the photos) were marked with letters and numbers so that we could find our way back to the offices if we got lost.

People spend their lives, and even died in that facility. Seeing it gone today put a lump in my throat.

Thanks for listening.

Alec: 26th May 2007 - 03:58 GMT

By the way. This plant existed in North Tarrytown, which changed its name to Sleepy Hollow. Tarrytown, NY still exists south of Sleepy Hollow, near the Tappan Zee bridge.

iman: 26th May 2007 - 14:02 GMT

man my aunt lives in sleepy hollow, and i can tell you that the last time i was there, her house and this one other house were the only ones in site, that is, if you could see over the tall grass. i never would have thought that there would be an old gm plant there. by the way, isn't that close to hudson?

Observer: 5th Jul 2007 - 19:57 GMT

It is depressing to see how the world changes when everything has to be manufactured cheaper and faster. Great Chevrolet cars were once built there inside that Tarrytown plant - now "Chevrolet cars" - or should I say cheap, plastic things that have Chevrolet logo are built in Korea! It's been wonderful to read about your memories! You who once worked there or you who lived there..

chelsea: 31st Jul 2007 - 16:44 GMT

wow! I found this website looking for sleepy hollow ringtones (sleepy hollow the movie)

this place looks interesting! I wish I knew more about it, like why did they abandon it.... stuff like that!

PHIL Z: 30th Oct 2007 - 00:02 GMT

IT'S A SHAME ROSELAND HAS PULLED OUT OF THIS DEVELOPMENT AND WE HAVE A VERY WEEK BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND MY BANK WENT BELLY UP !

robert ashworth jr: 30th Nov 2007 - 21:55 GMT

wow what a change ...i remember my dad working there,,,,what a great place
may gm will get it together ......i miss it going down rt 9.....should have been saved........

Steve: 6th Dec 2007 - 22:05 GMT

I worked there from 1977-1993 chassis dept. then left to work at the Saturn plant when the plan to close Tarrytown was announced.
Now retired. I worked in some of those water filled pits during my years there. It's a shame to see it gone no matter how I used to curse the place while I was there. I still don't know how we made it thru the summer heat in that place.
There are a lot of homeless rats there now, some of them wore ties.

headless horseman: 10th Jan 2008 - 03:42 GMT

They built Impalas in the late 60s and early 70s. Put six on a transport (Anchor Motor Freight) and roared down route 9 through Tarrytown to get to the Thruway. Every five minutes. Rocky (Gov Nelson R) was going to build a freeway on the river to relieve congestion but it was shot down.

Those Chevvies were pretty lousy cars, IMHO. You don't see a lot on the road today, even as collector items.

There was a guy who parked a car with a big lemon on it on Beekman Avenue, near the theater marquee, maybe 1970. Anyone know the inside story on him?

Thanks.

Steve: 21st Jan 2008 - 15:48 GMT

"Those Chevvies were pretty lousy cars, IMHO. You don't see a lot on the road today"

Personally I don't see a lot of 'any' cars from the late 60's and 70's on the road today, even here in the south outside the rust belt.

Dino: 2nd Feb 2008 - 21:41 GMT

I worked in Tarrytown for 15 yrs.Started in Hard Trim,then Soft trim after the 1982 layoff. I use to be a floater when I first started and I really enjoyed it a lot.I worked in all the departments and met so many people.My father started in 1958 and my brother and myself hired in in "78" and "79".I live in NW Ohio now and still work for GM at it's Powertrain Div.Still miss Tarrytown and all the people who worked there.I just wish there was a web site for us old GM Tarrytown workers.A web site where we can write and remember old times.

Tom Barley: 5th Mar 2008 - 20:08 GMT

Is there anyone who worked at the plant in 1962 I have a 1962 chevrolet Belair 409 I am Restoring Built April 10th and delivered to Dealer April 11th I am trying to find any Information If so E-Mail me at ttjbarley@aol.com

Thanks,
Tom

LI Varmint: 21st Mar 2008 - 21:23 GMT

"Those Chevvies were pretty lousy cars, IMHO. You don't see a lot on the road today"

Well, I'm the proud owner of 5 GM vehicles, 3 of which date from or before the Nixon administration. My winter "beater" is in fact an '86 Buick Century built right at this plant in August of '85. Its original "Chevvie" 2.8L V6 just turned 204K. Yup, a real POS indeed! :-)

Rain Palmer: 14th May 2008 - 03:37 GMT

"Those Chevvies were pretty lousy cars, IMHO. You don't see a lot on th road today"

Bullfuck.

they are everywhere and they are the best, i have a 66 chevy truck that was built there, a 65 c50 that was built there, used to have a buick too. Two Of my friends have trucks from that plant, my brother has a corvair, and my uncle still drives an apache built there. they go for ever. GM IS THE BEST! sucks they had to shut the place down though.

Built to last: 28th Jun 2008 - 18:36 GMT

I own one 66 from that factory and it still runs perfectly! Those Chevy cars were built to last. They don't make _Cars_ like that anymore.

Police&Vet.1967: 5th Aug 2008 - 04:04 GMT

Sad, What the college boys and politicians have done to our country so they can line their pockets....I own a 70 Impala conv. built at this plant(6-23-70)....when car were built to last..unlike the plastic junk they put out today.....sad so sad...I wonder what my kids will be left with if keep going down this road.....

Billie: 12th Aug 2008 - 09:50 GMT

I live in Florida, my boyfriend lives in Tarrytown. The first time I saw this site it brought back sad memories of my own. My mother, father, uncles and friends all worked in factories in the Quad Cities of East Moline - Moline Illinois- Farmall and International Harvester John Deer - its like they all closed down in the early 70's. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P3-768777361.html The people were devistated. My mother at the time was a single parent with three teenage daughters to support. What a blow- I was so worried about her - but got first hand experience on how she managed things. She was so strong and quick not to let us see her worry. I am so proud of how she figured things out. I remember she worked two jobs after that. An inspector at some eye glass company and waitressed at night just to get by. Eventually she moved us to Florida and she went back to school. She ended up getting her degree in computer programing- annalist . Today she has tried to retire four times.- but her work is in such demand the consultants seem to always call and request her back.
So when I saw this empty spot on the Hudson it gave me goose bumps - as our factories were also on the river - The Mississippi River

relic of the past glory of USA: 16th Sep 2008 - 11:12 GMT

Now it's just a relic of the past glory of USA - reminding us from the days when USA cars were luxury items and when workers had a good life and when families lived in harmony.

USA faces bankruptcy: 24th Sep 2008 - 12:07 GMT

look at that empty field. that area gave food and happy lives for many families for decades until greedy american bosses in USA started to move jobs to india and outsourced all that work.

Peter: 24th Sep 2008 - 13:08 GMT

i dont think general motors outsourced any of their engine assembly work to india...

chevys are made in korea now: 24th Sep 2008 - 17:20 GMT

Maybe not india, but current Chevrolets are built in Korea and that's a fact. Most of the american IT jobs have been outsourced to india.

Peter: 25th Sep 2008 - 00:28 GMT

food for thought: General Motors employs over 30 times the number of people in canada as they do in india or korea, but i doubt we would hear you complaining about "hard working americans'" jobs going to canada, eh?

a quick whirl on google shows that GM Daewoo has been making components for GM cars in south korea since 1972, and as it is owned stateside, over $500 million of profits make it back to america from this factory every year. even if that sounds like a lot, gm's korean operations involve less than one percent of gm's annual capital profit and make an even smaller percentage of components for the automaker.

im not sure what IT jobs and india have to do with any of this, that is, unless youre simply sopaboxing about outsourcing in general, which sounds likely given your passionate words and propensity to ignore logic.

gm is a for-profit corporations. a for profit corporation that posted a 38 BILLION dollar loss last year alone, so im sure theyre doing everything they can to economize and be more solvent... and as a global corporation with substantial operations in over 35 countries, im not sure that them employing people in non-american countries is bad. it makes sense to me, and gm still employs close to a half a million americans domestically, so... yeah. try to think more universally... theres more to ther world than america, americans and american jobs.

furthermore, a newspaper article (pasted below) from the day the plant closed indicates that your "greedy american bosses" gave a rather fair severance package to the displaced workers, so... pardon me if i dont exactly get your point. its rare that such huge corporate entities at least make such an effort.

are you just another american rallying around the outsourcing/immigration/etc bandwagon, making passionately inaccurate generalizations, and mixing apples and oranges simply because this post reminded you of an "unpatriotic" trend?

_________

GM Plant in Tarrytown, N.Y. Closes Today

06/28/96

The last of GM's long-nosed, plastic-bodied APV minivans will roll off the assembly line in Tarrytown, N.Y., today. It's a move that will kill the failed APV product line and and shut down the 97 year-old Tarrytown plant for good. 1,300 of the plant's 2,100 workers will be transferred to other GM plants, with the largest part of them moving to Doraville, GA to help with the construction of a new generation of minivans which is scheduled to enter production this summer. Another large group of uprooted workers will be transfered to GM's compact pickup and sport utility vehicle plant in Linden, N.J. Others will go to component facilities in New York state and Ohio.

130 employees have rejected GM's attempts to turn them into "GM gypsies" and will receive job security pay equal to normal wages. 140 will leave the automaker for other jobs. The plant's paint and body shops have already began shutting down earlier in the week as they completed their work on the last minivan.

Bill C.: 27th Sep 2008 - 20:09 GMT

I have photos from inside the plant,These photos are from the paint dept.Sometime in 1985.I worked in the paint dept for five years.Elpo dip.Here is my email buickttype2005@yahoo.com.Thanks.....

Andy yerks: 30th Sep 2008 - 02:36 GMT

Im working for metro north now, and for the past week weve been parking our cars at the old plant, im going to get some pictures tomorrow and post them here for u guys, i was doin donuts in my car on the old foundation floors, and i saw the water spots all over hte place and i was gona drive thru the water, but its a good thing that i didnt cause i got out and threw a rock, and it went in and kept going, and now im doing research and seeing that those spots are just old pits that they had there for the workers to do assembling underneath the cars, and theyre about 8 foot deep and 15x20 around, so its a good thing i didnt drive thru the water, but ill get some pics

Peter: 30th Sep 2008 - 02:53 GMT

hook us up, andy! how did you get a car out there? last time i was there, it would have been impossible, but they still had a small guard post.

id love to ride my longboard or bike out there...

Andy yerks: 1st Oct 2008 - 02:04 GMT

i got alot of pictures of whats left of the plant
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/yerksversion2/sleepy%20hollow%20gm%20plant/

Andy yerks: 1st Oct 2008 - 02:06 GMT

im working for metro north, so were allowed in there, but also, teh guard post that u saw is storage haha, its filled with just garbage and signs, there hasnt been anyone in there in years cuase i looked at the locks and theyre so rusted noones been in that little building, but yeah, i also left a few burnouts on the floors haha

Andy yerks: 1st Oct 2008 - 02:08 GMT

its just the coolest feeling being there, because its just history torn apart :C

Mark Kikta : 22nd Oct 2008 - 02:19 GMT

Very sad pictures. Wish I could have seen the plant in it's glory. I have a 1939 Chevrolet Master Deluxe Town Sedan that was built at Tarrytown in April of 1939. My 67 Impala Convertable as well.

Rambo John J.: 12th Nov 2008 - 11:47 GMT

It's a long road when you're all alone. It's the end of America as we've known it.

JIm: 24th Nov 2008 - 18:51 GMT

Is there any kind of contact for this site. Honestly, our Car Club needs an autocross site pronto. I will work with anything to get us out there on the pavement agian. We used to use Orange County airport, until the new owners said if its not an airplane it doesn't go out on the pavement. Another good site was the J lot at Palisades mall, until the locals said we were making too much noise. they were ignoring the fact that between their development and the parking lot was a freight train railway! Anyone know how to get in touch with someone? I am sure they would say no its too dangerous, but we pay pretty well, and carry our own SCCA insurance.

Thanks,
JimL

Peter: 24th Nov 2008 - 19:09 GMT

considering that at least half of the area of this site is comprised of steel pilings coming out of the ground and trecherously irregular trenches and holes dug into it, i wouldnt recommend it at all for autocross, heh...

JIm: 25th Nov 2008 - 15:20 GMT

Oh, I see what has been done now. I was thinking of their decent size parking lot too, from what I remember. GM had a comparison test there, after it had closed, when they were about to unveil the new Catera. I went to test it out with a few other cars including a BMW 325i, a Volvo 850 Wagon (non turbo), An ES250 Lexus, and a Infiniti G20 (I think), and a C280 Mercedes sedan. I chose, BMW, Lexus/Infiniti (tie), Catera, Volvo, and the Mercedes, first to last respectively. It wasn't that great a car.

James: 30th Nov 2008 - 19:25 GMT

I just think its Bull-Shit that Gm&Ford&chrystler(no need for discrimination they are all in this togetger)Has shipped jobs overseas to save a buck,and they are still raising the price of new vehicles,and then have the nerve to turn to Us(american people) after stripping us of our Jobs,Economy the value of the american dollar they have the Balls to turn to the american people and ask them for a Bail-out! FUCK-YOU you bailed on us years ago! go ask Mexico,Canida,Inda,aulstrailia, Ask somebody you have been supporting,We dont(or atleast I dont) care because of the automotive ind and Economy im jobless so it doesn't bother me to see it go.

SAMMY THE BULL: 24th Dec 2008 - 03:23 GMT

IT'S A SHAME THE U.A.W. PUT ALL THE GREAT COMPANIES OUT OF BUSINESS. MAKE A FORD AND A CHEVY LAST 10 YEARS LIKE THEY SHOULD IS THE BEST OF THE FREE LIFE BEHIND US NOW IS THE GOOD LIFE REALY OVER FOR GOOD !

Double A: 3rd Jan 2009 - 04:20 GMT

I found this looking for old info about Sleepy Hollow. It's a shame this plant shut down the way it did, but like one person said, at least they got relocated or a severance package. My entire department just got laid off without pay, so the owners could all get raises and xmas bonus'...my job and 25 others were sent overseas so the company could charge the same amount for the product, but at 35% less cost. Anyway, i know what's it's like to lose everything and i hope everyone whom overcame this plant closing ended up making a decent living doing something else.

Beautiful pictures, i'm a Ford guy but Chevy's are the best built cars in history, it's sad to see the way things are today.

-Double A

Jared: 26th Mar 2009 - 18:22 GMT

I spent nearly 30 years at the N. Tarrytown Plant (1968-1996)and still miss the people! I had the pleasure of writing the history of the nearly 100 year-old facility which produced over 11 million cars and trucks. At the time of its closure it was the longest continuously-running automobile assembly plant in the world. If any of you are interested in asking a specific question about its past I will do my best to answer.

GM Tarrytown 1966 Impala: 24th Apr 2009 - 18:30 GMT

I do not know if links are allowed here, but here you can find one of the fine products this assembly plant produced in 1965 (although it is 1966 model Impala). They don't make cars like this any more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2EtKxI1YAE

Kim: 24th Apr 2009 - 22:47 GMT

Jared, I had a friend who worked as an assembly line manager in the late 80s, early 90s. His name was Pete. He was very funny, played hockey and looked like Michael Keaton. Do you know who he is and what his last name is? I know there were a lot of employees but you never know. Trying to reconnect. Thanks, Kim

Zeebo: 30th Jun 2009 - 00:53 GMT

According to John Delorean this plant was rated the worst in build quality of all the GM plants.

CHICK: 20th Aug 2009 - 15:21 GMT

I like the cash for clunkers the top ten cars turned in were AMERICAN made the top ten purchased cars were made in JAPAN.

Ted Steenwerth IV: 30th Sep 2009 - 05:09 GMT

WoW!! memories
I worked there for a year loading gates in 79-80 (citation,2 door and 4 door plus the skylark)
my dad did 35 yrs (sprayer then they bought in the robots)and other family worked there for years
You should go to the park on the other side (you can just make out the park in your pics back in the trees)there used to be a way in from there
Can see the lighthouse in the first pick
I live in Georgia now, grew up in Croton NY
Oh can't forget the press box (the bar down by the old dutch church and cemetary LOL
Heres a pic of the outside of GM plant Tarrytown NY (I refuse to call tarrytown sleepy hollow just because of yuppies and a movie??

Tom M: 4th Oct 2009 - 01:16 GMT

Tarrytown was a great place to work. I worked in the Personnel department there from 1973 until it closed in 1996, then transferred to Kansas City in 1997, retiring in 2008. There was no comparision between the two organizations in people working together, hourly/salary, union/management. One of the disadvangtages we had in Tarrytown was the size of the plant compared to the huge plants that gm built in the 1980's. I am not an engineer but it was obvious the assembly process was more difficult in a small facility, which Tarrytown was.