Nyc Underground

[Nick]

Can't say exactly where, legal reasons. New York City.

Found an entrance to this place, accidentally, while roaming around a mostly neglected basement, looking for antique mechnical odds and ends.

Took a little while to get down there, two locked doors in the way , one padlocked; other mostly boarded up. It goes a few levels underground ( much like a 2nd basement, only there's a 3rd and 4th as well ) and I'm not sure of it's original purpose. Many corridors lead to nowhere ( bricked up ) as well as a few cavernous, empty halls.

Remained there for as much as I could; in other words, untill my intrepidity ( film, in other words ) ran out.

FYI, shots vary from level to level, and a few are in near complete darkness...while some places have electrial light. Two 9 volt torches used with a plastic filter/colour paper on it, that serves as a light diffuser for the camera.

Ok; onto the photographs.

[Nick]

Some of the walls that are located further underground have strange textures/openings. This one was more like half cement/soil mixture; wet.





Doesn't it look like there is something inside?







Door to a rest room. Full of rats, with black muck on the floor. Closed it much faster then I opened it.

[Nick]

In the two last coming shots; taken with night vision feature on camera. I have the extra add on IR illuminator for it, which doubles the range to about 50 feet. You put it to your eye and use it like a monocular to navigate.





Full of water, and dead rats. Must have walked for about 2 minutes inside of it before I reached a set of maint stairs that lead up to what looked like subway tracks/tunnel. No photos of that though, hard to put all of my stuff down, and no more space left for that either way, wanted to save a shot.

On the way out :




Hope they are OK, please don't rip me apart for the shots if you dislike them

[John Regular]

Thats awesome. I am greatly intrigued by your photographs.

[ScotchGuy]

Nick, those are great photographs. Especially the one with the nuclear symbol and the one which looks like a spider web of sorts.

[Jet Set Willy]

That's my favourite too. It reminds Scotch and myself of this.

[El Fugitivo]

Did you put someone in the incinerator? I swear there's a face in there.


My favorite is the tunnel with the floating rats. Did you wade through that?

[Jet Set Willy]

They are some really wonderful pictures. I love that sort of industrial dereliction. It's enchanting. Any more, Nickster?

[El Fugitivo]

You should get yourself a motor drive and just hold down the trigger as you walk and look around. It'd be expensive, but you could put it all together as a slideshow and then speed up the playback so that it looks like a herky-jerky film running double fast. Careening through underground tunnels. I wish I had the drive to do stuff like you do, Nick, instead of just blab about it.

[Jet Set Willy]

Yeah, me too. I often feel that Nick is living the life I'm longing for but too unmotivated/depressed/stuck-in-rut to even attempt. Bastard.