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Jan. 13th, 2009 | 02:38 pm
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It's great to find a community on LJ that is devoted to the joys in trespassing!
Last winter, my friend and I took the tram over to Roosevelt Island's crumbling Small Pox Hospital.
Of course just looking at it would never be enough in our world. My friend and I somehow managed to get past two fences, over a ton of rubble and weeds 3 feet taller than my head (in platform boots, no less) to explore the ruins.
It was freezing and windy as hell, but SO WORTH IT. We spent over an hour in there walking around what is left of this amazing place.
I only had my blackberry camera on me, so these aren't the greatest quality, but at least documented our adventure.
The Skyline as seen from the ruins.
I also grabbed a souvenir, a piece of what seems to be scrolled iron grating, completely rusted of course.
For those who aren't skeptical, I kept seeing odd images come up on these, but take that as you wish.
When I first opened this on my phone, the image of a forlorn emaciated person's upper half with their face leaning on their hand jumped out at me from the left side of this picture. Then the image of a small boy on the right of the black hole in the middle was pointed out to me. Now that it's been lightened in photoshop and enlarged, I can see even more faces.
My friend told me that he felt someone tapping him on the shoulder, turned around to find me several feet back, but didn't mention it until we had left.
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Last winter, my friend and I took the tram over to Roosevelt Island's crumbling Small Pox Hospital.
Of course just looking at it would never be enough in our world. My friend and I somehow managed to get past two fences, over a ton of rubble and weeds 3 feet taller than my head (in platform boots, no less) to explore the ruins.
It was freezing and windy as hell, but SO WORTH IT. We spent over an hour in there walking around what is left of this amazing place.
I only had my blackberry camera on me, so these aren't the greatest quality, but at least documented our adventure.
The Skyline as seen from the ruins.
I also grabbed a souvenir, a piece of what seems to be scrolled iron grating, completely rusted of course.
For those who aren't skeptical, I kept seeing odd images come up on these, but take that as you wish.
When I first opened this on my phone, the image of a forlorn emaciated person's upper half with their face leaning on their hand jumped out at me from the left side of this picture. Then the image of a small boy on the right of the black hole in the middle was pointed out to me. Now that it's been lightened in photoshop and enlarged, I can see even more faces.
My friend told me that he felt someone tapping him on the shoulder, turned around to find me several feet back, but didn't mention it until we had left.
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mapdark
date: Jan. 13th, 2009 08:07 pm (UTC)
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sorry if I sound like a total dork . But they did reproduce that place very well n grand theft auto 4
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razorart
date: Jan. 13th, 2009 08:19 pm (UTC)
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mapdark
date: Jan. 13th, 2009 09:17 pm (UTC)
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This one is on "Colony Island" the gta iv rendition of Roosevelt island.
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ghosttt
date: Jan. 13th, 2009 08:16 pm (UTC)
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i have always wanted to go here. i'll have to do it someday...
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razorart
date: Jan. 13th, 2009 08:20 pm (UTC)
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ghosttt
date: Jan. 13th, 2009 09:01 pm (UTC)
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vanityfacade
date: Jan. 14th, 2009 03:48 am (UTC)
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date: Jan. 14th, 2009 04:52 am (UTC)
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jj_maccrimmon
date: Jan. 13th, 2009 08:26 pm (UTC)
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Edited at 2009-01-13 08:26 pm (UTC)
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razorart
date: Jan. 13th, 2009 08:29 pm (UTC)
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solitaryfairy
date: Jan. 13th, 2009 08:34 pm (UTC)
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filthy_lily
date: Jan. 13th, 2009 08:38 pm (UTC)
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razorart
date: Jan. 13th, 2009 08:54 pm (UTC)
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I have to laugh b/c this is so typical of me. Like, I could just see myself risking life and limb to get to North Brother Island only to hear that DUH, there are boats you can take over on LABOR DAY ;)
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onlineoffline
date: Jan. 13th, 2009 08:52 pm (UTC)
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That was a spooky adventure.
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razorart
date: Jan. 14th, 2009 06:38 pm (UTC)
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Oh, that was one of the best nights EVER!!
Remember when we went in that abandoned building by Lucky Cat? It's leveled now!
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slpmary
date: Jan. 14th, 2009 02:22 am (UTC)
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tikibirds
date: Jan. 14th, 2009 02:27 am (UTC)
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althoug I am not seeing anything intersting in the last pics. To me it looks like a brick wall with a hole in it :(
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On closer inspection, I do see whatlooks like a decapitated head on the top of the pic...creepy
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glass_doll
date: Jan. 14th, 2009 04:47 pm (UTC)
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a_muse_d
date: Jan. 16th, 2009 08:42 am (UTC)
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i'm going to take that as a good thing, as i'm about to go to bed and don't need the images. ;p
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