This Abandoned Graffiti Warehouse In Sunset Park Is One Of NYC’s Most Beautiful Spots
December 16, 2014 | Aymann Ismail
Some of New York City’s most desolatespotsare also some of its mostbeautiful. This derelict warehouse I recently ventured into in Sunset Park qualifies as one of those places. Thoroughly dilapidated and rundown, yet beaming with sunlight and rows of columns, the sprawling abandoned space is adorned with graffiti from the likes of NOXER, PLASMA SLUGS, SEND HELP, VEW, KLOPS, COMIK, GOUCH and so many others. Click through the photos above to see what a bonafide, off-limits gallery looks like.
There are some abandoned warehouses in Red Hook that are currently functioning as unsanctioned, indoor graffiti galleries featuring work from the likes of CASH4, SMELLS, Deeker, Keely Cat, Sweet Toof, DROID, Plasma Slugs, SEND HELP, ACID, FALSE, KLOPS, VEW, MENOS, SEM and many, many others. As amazing as the illegal…
Like other major urban centers, the city of St. Louis is teeming with graffiti. Some of it's amazing, some of it sucks. In between covering the protests in Ferguson, here's what we came across in a desolate warehouse, at an abandoned train yard, and along a legal (flood) wall on…
So far this year, the city's 311 hotline has received 452 graffiti complaints in Sunset Park, compared to only 225 in 2013. The graffiti is "most prevalent along Eighth Avenue, pillars under the Gowanus Expressway and certain pedestrian pathways," DNAinfo reports, providing a nifty map illustrating city-wide statistics. Other neighborhoods where…
