Return to the Bronx County Courthouse
This last week, I had the opportunity to serve jury duty in the South Bronx. During lunch hour, I walked across town to the Bronx Borough Courthouse, the site of last April's Ars Subterranea event The...
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Happy Easter from Wantage, New Jersey!
I spent Easter with family in Wantage, New Jersey; we saw vultures, a badger, and a pheasant. We spent most of our time in a nice house and also watching dozens of kids search a hill for hidden Easter...
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Spring is finally here. The weather is fantastic, my lilac tree is thisclose to blooming, and a strong urge to explore is pulsing through my veins. Since I'm 8 months pregnant, I'm living a bit...
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A Handbook for Adventurers
As my last post stated, it'd sure be nice to be driving a car through Rodney, Mississippi and exploring its abandoned Civil War-era buildings and imagine what life was like there way back when. But...
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Sound the Alarm
Wave Hill was moderately crowded today with visitors wanting to get away from the urban jungle for a short commune with nature. Here are a couple of photos of plants that I particularly enjoyed (the...
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Time Out New York carries the flashlight
Ars Subterranea was included in Time Out New York's "Extreme issue" a couple of issues ago. Billie Cohen from TONY, who wrote the first significant piece about Ars Subterranea in 2002, accompanied us...
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the genre of office urban exploration photography?
Over the weekend, Boing Boing, Laughing Squid, and other cool blogs linked to Phillip Toledano's Bankrupt series, in which the photographer took photos of recently abandoned offices. I first came...
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'Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City' exhibition at The New...
One of the many hats I wear at my day job: I'm the publicist for an exhibition that opened on May 2 at The New York Public Library. If you're in the New York City area, Eminent Domain is definitely a...
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abandoned gas stations, Detroit's Tiger Stadium, and more
I plan on posting more to this blog, really, I do. I've thought of dozens and dozens of posts and not had the time. This is going to change. Here are a few small tidbits in the meantime:Detroit's Tiger...
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waterfront Brooklyn, Treasure Island, and an update on the Lams of Ludlow Street
Nathan Kensinger's Twilight on the Waterfront: Brooklyn's Vanishing Industrial HeritageUrban explorer and blogger Nathan Kensinger has an exhibition titled Twilight on the Waterfront: Brooklyn's...
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not quite abandoned
Driven by Boredom had a nice post this week about the closed New York Public Library location of the Donnell Library Center. (In full disclosure, I am on maternity leave from my job in the PR dept. of...
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abandoned towns
Now that the economy is in a bit of a free fall (or so it seems), I've noticed an increased number in articles about abandoned towns, cities, and neighborhoods. In the February 1 issue of The New York...
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nostalgia photography
Is taking photos of abandoned places in America too often an act of nostalgia, and if so, what does that mean about the work? Is "urban exploration photography" an excercise in nostalgia? Vanishing...
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Plymouth, Montserrat
I first heard of Montserrat while reading CREEM magazine. Montserrat was the home of AIR Studios, where the English bougeoisie "rock" musicians went to record albums in the 1980s. (The Police, Paul...
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Vergara exhibition at the New-York Historical Society
Urban Landscaped readers know that I'm a fan of Camilo José Vergara's photographs and books. Vergara has a distinct viewpoint blending UE photography, sociology, and street photography, and he's author...
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Concrete Plant Park
A great article about decommissioned train stations in the Bronx ran in yesterday's Times. Three stations were featured: the Westchester Avenue station, the Morris Park station, and the Hunts Point...
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would-be P Diddy employees go urban exploring
I work PR for an organization based on urban exploration, and we've received numerous "press requests" over the years. One of the more non-relevant ones we've recently received was a request from a...
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visiting The Christmas House
When I was young, one of my favorite Christmas activities was going to this Christmas building in New Jersey. Everything was Christmas, and it was about a half hour of walking through Christmas scene...
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children's book recommendations
Children are curious, inquisitive, and constantly on the lookout for new people, places, things, and ideas. Most parents love this aspect of raising children, as do I. This exploration encompasses...
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