nickcarr
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Awesome Art Deco WPA Painting Hidden in a NYC Post Office
Last year for Open House NY (happening soon – get your tickets now!), I wrote about the 8th Avenue Post Office, and how 95% of it is completely vacant. I was recently there for a location scout, and while I was waiting for my contact, I noticed something I hadn’t on my first visit: this…
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A Very Creepy House in Brooklyn
Scouting NY is having a Halloween contest in which you submit a picture of your favorite local eerie property and win tickets to NY’s infamous Nightmare Haunted House! This is what my submission would be… This is what I imagine it looks like when a house possessed by evil opens one eye to stare at…
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A Very Strange Lawn Zoo on Staten Island
When you first see it, 724 Todt Hill Road seems like pretty much every other house in the Dongan Hills area of Staten Island. And then you see the dinosaur:
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The Coolest Elevator in New York
Last week, I was scouting office space in a building in Queens. My guide brought me to this totally unassuming elevator: Really, I have to show you this as I encountered it: