Some of the Best Photographs from the New Abandoned NYC Photobook

The Freedom Tunnel under Riverside Park once held a vast homeless encampment known as "the mole people." Amtrak evicted the residents and reactivated the line in the 1990s, but the tunnel remains a mecca for graffiti artists.

The Gowanus "Batcave" was the home of a thriving squatter community in the early 2000s. Today it's being renovated into artists' studios and exhibition space.

In Queens, a population of pigeons has inhabited an abandoned ward at Creedmoor State Hospital for decades. Dropping stalagmites accrue under popular roosts on the top floor.

A homemade submarine lies half-submerged in the mud of Coney Island Creek in Brooklyn. The vessel became lodged in the muck shortly after embarking on a failed treasure hunting expedition in the 1970s.

The Harlem Renaissance Ballroom was a notable meeting place for the movement's movers and shakers in the 1920s. It once hosted the greatest jazz perfomers of the age, as well as the nation's first all-black professional basketball team.

Paint peels in the now-demolished packaging plant of Williamsburg's Domino Sugar Refinery. The factory operated on the Brooklyn waterfront for nearly 150 years before shutting down in the early 2000s.

Letchworth Village is located just an hour's drive from NYC in Thiells, NY. It was founded in 1912 to house the city's developmentally disabled as a "state institution for the epileptic and feeble-minded."

North Brother Island in bronx was the site of a historic hospital for contagious diseases. Today, it's designated as a wildlife preserve by the Parks department after being abandoned for half a century.

The Staten Island Farm Colony was constructed in the 19th century to house and rehabilitate the city's poor. This was the last room standing in a collapsed dormitory now slated for demolition.

Grossinger's Catskills Resort was once a favored upscale destination for Jewish New Yorkers. A summer at Grossinger's is said to be the inspiration for the movie "Dirty Dancing."

Abandoned NYC is a new photobook from Brooklyn-based photographer Will Ellis. In the book, Ellis compiled some of his best work from his blog with the same name, and created a hauntingly beautiful view of the City.

Step inside the New York you never knew, with 200 eerie images of urban decay, through crumbling institutions, defunct military posts, abandoned factories, railroads, schools, and waterways. Uncover the forgotten history behind New York s most incredible abandoned spaces, and witness its seldom seen and rapidly disappearing landscape. Explore the ruins of the Harlem Renaissance, sift through the artifacts of massive squatter colonies, and find out how the past is literally washing up on the shores of a Brooklyn beach called Dead Horse Bay.

Abandoned NYC is now available on Amazon and is the #1 new release in it's category.

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