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That needle pegged at 340 psig but to be damaged like that it must have been subjected to a minimum of 10% over pressure..ie 380 psig. That would have been a scarey shift for the boilerman.

It's infrared photography - letting only certain wavelengths through the lens, making plants look white and the sky black. The shutter must be open for a few seconds to a minute or so, making cloud trails as the move across the sky.

That's a pretty good guess - a drop ceiling with asbestos tiles that were removed.

Wow, a Bikini Atoll ship - fascinating, thanks for the info!

reminds me of silence of the lmbs

This has been demolished. The current owners are widely implicated, though not yet charged, with having someone commit Arson in an effort to get rid of the Bats that lived there, and prevented demolition/Renovation. This didn't work, they have just moved into another part of the building. You can hear them, as I did when I was there a few weeks ago. It is in a very sorry state indeed these days, so these pictures are a nice reminder of how it was.

this shit is sick

I worked the Switchboard at the Concord in 1976 and in the dining room at the Pines in 1978. Does any one remember Pop-Ins? It was a great place for breakfast in South Fallsburgh. How about Oretsky's in Fallsburg? Does anyone know the whereabouts of a waiter named Luis Mejias (Puerto Rico) who worked the Pines about the same time.

Yeah, I was there in the early 70s and your taxes paid for it.

This is what adult humans do to adolesence humans.

The staff that made the Gaebler Children's Center exist
should be living with a lot guilt for making it function.
The staff were more a part it than the building itself.

I believe this was the Esso Brussels, which collided with another ship in 1973. They caught fire and the whole flaming mess drifted under the Verrazano Bridge. There are pictures online. This barge has been scrapped. Currently in this spot is the Sunset Queen, a fake paddleboat which sank in Sheepshead bay a few years ago.

You've got some good pictures here, and the comments are a wealth of information! I've been to the ship graveyard a few times, and have been researching a few of the ships. This one started life as the US Navy YOG 64. It was a fueiing ship which supported the occupation forces after WWII before providing support for nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll. After it was decontaminated, it was sold to a commercial shipping company on Staten Island. It was scrapped sometime in the 1980's.

it looks like there is a person looking down from the window in the top left corner

I went there with a friend and they are starting to demolishing it and build something else.

I guess they are already done because it was a few months back when i went there.

This angled shot reminds me of the Cascada song, 'Your arms are my castle, your heart is my sky...'

Very striking! Thankfully the red color still exists for the dramatic contrast.