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Our very own Jake Dobkin braved some disintegrating buildings in Harlem this past weekend. Both the ballroom (in the first photo) and the school (shown in all other photos) are located in Central Harlem about 10 blocks apart from each other, and are clearly abandoned now. He notes of the former: "This building looked like it had been empty for twenty years. Trees were growing out of the floors and poking out of dozens of holes in the roof. All the windows were gone, and the floors that weren't covered with snow were thick with dust and the skeletons of dead pigeons. There wasn't any evidence of human habitation-- no footprints, homeless encampments, or graffiti."
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Really beautiful and atmospheric. Nice work!
What no evidence of human habitation? Really? These would make really sweet crack houses.
I guess we have connoisseurs of crack houses around here.
It is kind of odd that these buildings have remained abandoned when a brownstone shell in mid-Harlem could be sold until recently for half a million dollars or more, and houses in good condition were getting 1.5 or 2 million. In other words, people were pretty hot to buy and develop or repair the real estate. Who's the owner, the city? Letting things rot as usual, while they have 400 million for Yankee Stadium?
Someone should figure that one out.
Seriously, how are these not luxury condos?