Abandoned places...?

[79CamaroDiva]

I'm trying to search out some cool abandoned buildings to photograph (inside and out) for a project. The stranger, the better; old schools, factories, buildings, whatever. As long as they're abandoned and i can hopefully find a way in. Closer to central jersey would be ideal, but not necessary. Anybody have any ideas?

I looked at weird nj, but none of the places on there have any directions on how to get to these places, only towns. So any place that you guys know how to get to would be great.

[BigAls87Z28]

Remember what I said, if you find any cool abandoned warehouses, enough to store some cars, it could be a club house!! W00T!!

[LS1Hawk]

There's a whole abandoned town in NJ by the Delaware Water Gap. Can't remember the name of it, but apparently in the 30s the residents were forced to evacuate because they were going to flood the town to make the reservoir bigger. But they ended up never doing it, so the town is pretty much exactly the way it was left.

[NJSPEEDER]

there is the old lambertville school. place is beat up and very cool.

[79CamaroDiva]

there is the old lambertville school. place is beat up and very cool.

directions would be fantastic timmy... :)

[chevyt454]

Admiral's row over at the Brooklyn naval yard is pretty cool. Its where the officers lived as far back as the Civil war. Its abandonded now.

http://www.trixrosenphotography.com/Preservation/NavyYard/pages/navy4.html

http://www.alexisrobie.com/archives/cat_navy_yard.html

[SSport]

there's a big old abandoned building at the begining of Rt. 130 in North Brunswick.....When you take the Rt. 130 souoth exit off of Rt. 1 South it's on the right hand side pretty much as soon as you get onto Rt. 130 (kinda next to the Wachovia bank....also there are 3 abandoned houses on Mill rd. in Edison.....which is right off of old post road (by Boston Market) used to be 4 houses until kids burnt down one of them.

[fsanford]

well if you are willing to take a ride i have the best place for you its in philly it called byberry mental institute it been shut down forever theres like 15 building left, the place is scary as **** but be careful goin in place ****ed up and guarded by renta-cops:twisted:

[Tru2Chevy]

http://www.weirdnj.com/ <-- use Google to get directions

- Justin

[SteveR]

well if you are willing to take a ride i have the best place for you its in philly it called byberry mental institute it been shut down forever theres like 15 building left, the place is scary as **** but be careful goin in place ****ed up and guarded by renta-cops:twisted:

OOOOO I've heard of that place, I hear its really freaky.

[its Jeanne-Marie]

there's a very sketchy abandoned power plant in fairfield, it's all overgrown and scary!! and you might turn into a ninja turtle if you go in!!!

[Teds89IROC]

haha, JM's right! I want to go inside but she doesn't. There's an abandoned insane asylum in I think Verona. I went there a few years back with some friends, we also climbed up a huge/steep ass hill to another part of the asylum. It was in Weird NJ, but the building has been knocked down. That place was scary as hell, there was even an underground tunnel linking the buildings, didn't go in there though.

~Ted

[SteveR]

haha, JM's right! I want to go inside but she doesn't. There's an abandoned insane asylum in I think Verona. I went there a few years back with some friends, we also climbed up a huge/steep ass hill to another part of the asylum. It was in Weird NJ, but the building has been knocked down. That place was scary as hell, there was even an underground tunnel linking the buildings, didn't go in there though.

~Ted

Unfortunately the place in Verona is gone :( They tore down the last of the buildings like 2 years ago. That was by far the freakiest place I've ever been to.

[slugger27nj]

Fort Hancock at the north end of Sandy Hook has all kinds of abandoned gun batteries and turrets. You can get to a lot of them, but some are fenced because of years of decay. Also, there's the old Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia...it may be closed during the winter though. The website is www.easternstate.org. BTW, Eastern State has a great haunted prison tour during the Halloween season called Terror Behind the Walls that's definitely worth checking out.

[79CamaroDiva]

sweet! thanks a lot guys. keep 'em coming. something came up and i probably won't get to shoot these this weekend, but definitely will eventually (i hope). gives us more time to scope more places out.

[maroman88]

theres an empty and beatin office building in paramus, it was on the front page of the local paper a few weeks ago becuase when they re did the rt4/rt17 interchange its access was cut off and u can only get in from farview ave in paramus, i havent been down there but it looked all over grown and windows busted out...

[maroman88]

heres the article....
Hotel proposed for near Rtes. 4, 17

Thursday, January 5, 2006

By MERRY FIRSCHEIN
STAFF WRITER



PARAMUS - A developer wants to build a hotel on the site of an empty office building off the junction of Routes 4 and 17.

The proposal by Oster Apartments LLC of Englewood Cliffs calls for a five-story Marriott Residence Inn on the 2.8-acre property. Oster owns the property. The Borough Council recently declared the site in need of redevelopment.


The 15,500-square-foot, L-shaped building would have an attached one-story gatehouse. Also proposed is a circular driveway and 114 parking spaces.

The application seeks three variances of borough laws. Plans show a larger building than is permitted on the property, and a building height of 56 feet, or five floors - more than the permitted 36 feet, or three floors. The application also is seeking an exception to certain parking regulations.

Commonly known as the S-10 building, the property was the focus of a recent report submitted to the Planning Board. According to the report, the building fits three of the eight characteristics for a property to be deemed an "area in need of redevelopment."

The building has been empty for several years and most of the glass windowpanes are broken or missing. Weeds grow in the asphalt parking lot.

In mid-December, the Planning Board voted to accept the report's recommendations. By labeling a specific property in need of redevelopment, a municipality has legal authority to revitalize it.

After the Routes 4 and 17 interchange was completed in November 1999, highway access to the building was cut off. Now, access is only through residential Maple Street.

The plans, if approved, show a future road accessing Route 17.

The S-10 property originally comprised two lots with a gas station and an office building. The lots were combined in 1980, and the gas station was demolished and the office building enlarged.

The plans were received Tuesday at the Board of Adjustment office. No date has been set for a board hearing on the application.

E-mail: firschein@northjersey.com

[turbo96z28]

there was a story in wierd nj about 3 or 4 abandoned houses at the top of a hill in a little culdesac(don't know if it's the same on SSport is talking about). my girl knows where it is so i'll ask her tonight. supposedly a kid that lived in the house killed his family and burned the house down. theres even a car paked in front of one of the houses all burned up.

i gotta ask my girl tonight, she knows a bunch of places she used to go to when she was in hs. she still remembers most of them and where they are. we'll even go with you if we can.

[Blacdout96]

Oh **** son, your from hackettstown eh? I went up there one time on a wierd NJ run, my friends read the map wrong ( later found out it was a typo) and ended up there, yeah ive gone around jersey a little I live 2 miles from the Jersey Devils house, and is about 2-300 yards behind one of my friends house before they moved, its not as scary as you think, but go down my road which is one of the only in Galloway not developed on cause i got a landfill down the road, ANYWHO... i do have two sites one ill tell you about and the other is in a wierd NJ mag, ill give you the short version of the story, we almost got arrested, and it happen to be the place we were looking for when we screwed up and ended in hackettstown lol, its the old airplane factory and i forget which one its in, the other one is about a mile from me, and we used to sneak in, Known as the White house, due to two things, the house is white, and one of the former residents was named white ( on the mailbox) this house was built if i have to estimate between 1850-1900, it so small and creepy, and wierd stuff happened in there too, firstly, the first time we went in we went into the living room, which had a ceiling fan, well the fan wasent spinning, i know, cause i was the last person out of the room to go look at the master living room, well i was the first one back in the room, and what do you know, the fan was spinning, not quickly, but as though someone tapped it enough, the second was that my friends and me were chilling in the same room the fan was spinning, well we were all taking photos of eachother, and for some reason, i was the only one with red eyes, doesnt sound interesting, well theres more, even though the mailbox had white on it, we found alot of papers and things with a last name whos the same as mine, im not going to give away my name for security reasons, but for some reason i had red eyes in all the photos, and my family is one of the original founders of my town just to give a little back track info, the third one is when another time we were haning out int once again the living room, and for soem reason there wasa schreeching noise, like a bat, coming from the master living room across the hall, we went in, and found out the noise was coming from under the fireplace!!! well we lifted the bricks up and there was nothing but ground, no celler, after that i hadent gone there in a while till i went to show one of my friends the house, well this is the last one, and was the last time i was in there, we went in and the house was originally torn apart alittle, someone knocked the stairway handrail down, well we go in, and its set up!!! it scared the **** out of me thinking someone else might be going in there, so i never went back, well a couple of my friends did and i asked them if they noticed the handrail and they said what are you talking about, it was on the floor where its always been...... and so, ive never gone back, and each timei got by it i have this urge to go in ,and take pics to show jus thow eire this place is, oh and the former residnts before it became abandonded, lived there when i was going to elementary school, they were really old people, and just one day they werent there.

[its Jeanne-Marie]

that's pretty interesting........i think we should start having weekly weird nj meets...i used to do that with friends a few summers ago. there's some pretty sketchy stuff out there

[V]

there an old abandoned school in my town of Closter, called village school i actually went there from grades 6-8, you can actually walk right up to the building, no gates or anything, its very overgrown, and falling apart brick building, a few of my friends have been in it too, There are no gaurds and no cameras either.

Also i believe in New milford there and old water treatment plant or power plant, about a block down from Kinderkamack Rd, I dont know exact location or how locked up it and the property is, but I'm sure maroman88 can tell you more.

[WayFast84]

if this was 2 years or so ago Id say teppers in plainfeild...but theres this rusty ass ship in a like swampy area dont know where it is but I really want to take a lil boat and see it up close...

[curt86iroc]

pick up a copy of weird NJ. they have all the good places.

[Tsar]

graystone...

[PBodyGT87]

Skillman Institute, in Montgomery NJ. Many have gone in and around it, but you're not supposed to be there, there's usually a guard driving around. It's an abandoned Insane-asylum, many buildings over there. Oh, and it's scary as hell. watch out for deer.

http://www.limelike.com/clips/skillman.html

[bitchincamaro]

i have been up to the paulinskill viaduct twice. it up off route 80 in north jersey. its a old abandonded train bridge. it was built in the early 1900's and at the time was the biggest bridge of its time. i think that only lasted a few months though. you can climb up into it and climb through the arches. its not really scary or anything just strange that its abandoned and is in the woods. i think its about 100 feet tall. its cool heres a link:
http://www.xydexx.com/modernruins/paulinskill.htm

i just read that link. we went all the way to the other end of the bridge through the arches. i think there was 6 or 7.

[WayFast84]

Ohh and theres this really weird like 4 ft long brige wich once used to be a rail road crossing over a little stream in the dismal swamp but its like in the middle of the swamp and NO tracks leading up to it............me and my freinds have to shimmy across it some times when were being rednecks for the day..

[Brando56894]

menantico colony in vineland :D it was a mental institute back in the 20s and 30s from what ive heard the place is creepy as hell at night but during the day idk, the campus is huge prolly has about 15 buildings. the thing is that its gaurded by cops too, but you get arrested immeadiately if you set foot on the property :(

[Ian]

I know of a few places. there is a building that I know of that has a tank, yes a military tank, on the second floor. there is also an abandoned WWII government depot near me. Liz mentioned the North Princeton Development Center, thats a good one, but you have to be pretty sneaky. Demon's Alley in north Jersey isnt very scary, but there are some strange little houses. And of course there is the Prosthetic Limb House, which is actually curt86iroc's grandparent's house :lol:

[WayFast84]

Hell You can be real cheap and take some pics of a walk way in my gramps house LOL! its concrete and all cracked! we can get some fake cob webs and some cool holloween decorations...

[Tsar]

Hell You can be real cheap and take some pics of a walk way in my gramps house LOL! its concrete and all cracked! we can get some fake cob webs and some cool holloween decorations...
get her some beer too :wink:

[79CamaroDiva]

get her some beer too :wink:

beer is greatly appreciated.

i'm not necessarily going for creepy halloweeny ****, just something interesting and out of the ordinary, so i thought that an abandoned place would be nice. thanks for everything guys.

[SteveR]

graystone...

I think they knocked it all down a few months ago :(

[maroman88]

there an old abandoned school in my town of Closter, called village school i actually went there from grades 6-8, you can actually walk right up to the building, no gates or anything, its very overgrown, and falling apart brick building, a few of my friends have been in it too, There are no gaurds and no cameras either.

Also i believe in New milford there and old water treatment plant or power plant, about a block down from Kinderkamack Rd, I dont know exact location or how locked up it and the property is, but I'm sure maroman88 can tell you more.

yea its actually in oradell lol that was the battle cuz new milford wants some of the property. its closed up pretty tight now since 9/11 but i got a tour with the fire dept last year and it was awesome inside, the desks are still in place along with the log files for the equipment, an old fire alarm system and phone lines and stuff, pretty cool to see the pre-computer age, some homeless people had been living in it but have since been kicked out. the auto shop was still intact also, all the tools still lined up n wat not. have u ever seen the bergen county security in the old crown vics wih yellow lights?...yea they walk around the place everyday and check all the locks on the barb wire fences.

a few weeks ago a group from a wierd NJ forum of some sort tried to get in at night and the cops were having a field day goin after people even county PD came for some fun lol

[curt86iroc]

I know of a few places. there is a building that I know of that has a tank, yes a military tank, on the second floor. there is also an abandoned WWII government depot near me. Liz mentioned the North Princeton Development Center, thats a good one, but you have to be pretty sneaky. Demon's Alley in north Jersey isnt very scary, but there are some strange little houses. And of course there is the Prosthetic Limb House, which is actually curt86iroc's grandparent's house :lol:

yup, hehe!

[IROCZman15]

Greystone ... the 90% abandoned mental institution off of route 10, near like dover/ or somewhere around there

[Dark_Knight7096]

My friends used to go to lamberville school all the time. I've been to clinton and runyon(sp) road several time (both big features in weird NJ) I have the boxed set, special edition of clinton road, and book if you wanna check them out sometime. My friends also frequent abandoned asylums, if you want i can talk to them to see if they would be willing to all take a trip up there and take you with them. I'm sure they would be.

[Savage_Messiah]

yea its actually in oradell lol that was the battle cuz new milford wants some of the property. its closed up pretty tight now since 9/11 but i got a tour with the fire dept last year and it was awesome inside, the desks are still in place along with the log files for the equipment, an old fire alarm system and phone lines and stuff, pretty cool to see the pre-computer age, some homeless people had been living in it but have since been kicked out. the auto shop was still intact also, all the tools still lined up n wat not. have u ever seen the bergen county security in the old crown vics wih yellow lights?...yea they walk around the place everyday and check all the locks on the barb wire fences.

a few weeks ago a group from a wierd NJ forum of some sort tried to get in at night and the cops were having a field day goin after people even county PD came for some fun lol

The big building right below the railroad tracks? behind new milford high school? Pass it all the time, never knew what it was though

[V]

yeah kasey, that place, actually its on an island i believe, if you look at the lay of the land closely and how im pretty sure you have to go over a bridge each way to get to it. anyways, a while back i wanted to see if it was for sale and hoping the town would cut me a break if i agreed to keep it as a landmark or something, but then i work of from that "dream", and realized this is the real world and everything is hella expensive.

[rgaynor85]

theres a old abandoned coal factory and pier that stretched way out into the water with a old sunken ferry in carteret, its wild looking we use to ride our dirtbikes back there and run around inside, me and my friend climbed the broken stairs about 20 stories up to the top of the tower on the pier its really cool. half the peer is gone cause it looks like it burnt down but most of its left. theres like a huge conveyor belt to bring the coal to the factory, theres also these 2 long warehouses next to it but its dark inside and we never brought flashlights so we got no idea whats inside. also in the coal factory itself u can climb the ladders and go up inside the place. its in carteret right back behind conrail the train yard, u can see it in the distance from a bridge over there if forget what road though

[FBODYFirebird]

Since this is the perfect time to visit weirdNJ places here's some attachments for GOOGLE EARTH "EXACT DIRECTIONS"

I've posted them so it's easier to find "YOUR WELCOME"

http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html <---- GOOGLE EARTH


You have to go through a park and you will come up to a fence you will jump the fence and go down a 2 mile long road "PRINT DIRECTIONS AND MAP" your going to need it, this was my favorite place
Slaughter House (http://www.drivehq.com/file/DF.aspx/slaughterhouse.kmz?isGallery=&share=&shareID=0&fileID=9369413&pay=&sesID=h0xhyl450bdy1355xpbvek45&forcedDownload=true)

Just be careful around Greystone there is a police station not even like 3 miles away we parked on a side road behind the building.... "Greystone is awesome"
GreyStone (http://www.drivehq.com/file/DF.aspx/greystone.kmz?isGallery=&share=&shareID=0&fileID=9369412&pay=&sesID=h0xhyl450bdy1355xpbvek45&forcedDownload=true)

Dont forget to bring flashlights

[qwikz28]

Since this is the perfect time to visit weirdNJ places here's some attachments for GOOGLE EARTH "EXACT DIRECTIONS"

I've posted them so it's easier to find "YOUR WELCOME"

http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html <---- GOOGLE EARTH

Slaughter House (http://www.drivehq.com/file/DF.aspx/slaughterhouse.kmz?isGallery=&share=&shareID=0&fileID=9369413&pay=&sesID=h0xhyl450bdy1355xpbvek45&forcedDownload=true)

GreyStone (http://www.drivehq.com/file/DF.aspx/greystone.kmz?isGallery=&share=&shareID=0&fileID=9369412&pay=&sesID=h0xhyl450bdy1355xpbvek45&forcedDownload=true)
YESSS!!!!!!!! cause almost 10 months later we were all still looking for directions! how'd ya know?

[Savage_Messiah]

err actually the previous post was 1/30/06 so it'd be just over 8 months.

great math jake. no really, im very impressed

[79CamaroDiva]

YESSS!!!!!!!! cause almost 10 months later we were all still looking for directions! how'd ya know?


Even if you're math does suck... directions to these places could be good to know... I'd like to go to take some pictures, though since steve vanished I dunno who else is hardcore into that kind of photography enough to go with me.

[Savage_Messiah]

That would be "your math" not "you're math"... :D

[79CamaroDiva]

That would be "your math" not "you're math"... :D

i hate you.

[Fleetwiz]

Ginger bread castle
Hamburg NJ right off 23 just south of 94

[ar0ck]

Theres an abondend Jet Engine test facility over by Teteboro Airport in Hasbruck Heighs (sp?) Its easy to get into but its next to a Rose Art factory that does have security.

[qwikz28]

err actually the previous post was 1/30/06 so it'd be just over 8 months.

great math jake. no really, im very impressed
lol i hate you kasey