The Newark Street Jail was built in 1837. Renamed the Essex County Jail Complex when several additional structures were constructed, it remains Essex County, New Jersey's oldest standing municipal building. This is what it loos like today, almost 175 years later The undergrowth has been thriving in the recent warm springtime weather, and the outer yards are hard to navigate, between all the rotting waste and sharp objects scattered about Perhaps the structure decayed long ago or perhaps it was removed, but this cellblock is right...

The Ghost Ships of Coney Island Creek

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

Behind the tall grass and trees of Calvert Vaux Park in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, hidden from the soccer players on Sundays, is a nautical graveyard. Burned and rotting hulks of abandoned vessels jut from the dirty beach into the silted, sluggish water of Coney Island Creek. The ribs of other ships emerge from the shallows like bones... (NYT) Steam engine boiler The wood having rotted away, all that remains...

Sidetracked in Harrison: Warehouses North of the PATH Station

author: Peter : Harrison, NJ

The third post in this Sidetracked in Harrison series, these photos cover the structures and warehouses immediately to the north of the Harison, NJ tracks of the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) commuter light rail The pink region on the map is a quick overview of this area. And again, here's an overview map of Harrison, for context First, we begin in Springtime in Bayside Acacia Cemetery

author: Sean Hopkins : Queens, NY

A modern day hotbed of wanton neglect belies any of the original intentions of preserving the remembrance of lost loved ones at Acacia Cemetery. This is less an educational set than a pictorial journey through a place that is slowly succumbing to Mother Nature, and unfortunately, a fair share of vandalism. Some may find this a bit macabre and I fully understand that. Yet others, like myself can look at these photos and realize the swiftness of our existence, the wonderment of being alive, and the subtle beauty of decay. I approached this photoshoot tastefully, with the intentions of representing just that....

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