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Or maybe somebody with a foul butt scared them all into a corner?

Yea! I thought of Amityville Horror at first too! Its just the windows that are different...

I just know them damned zombies lie ahead.

No decorating needed, and I see it comes with it's own crypt-keeper.

Flushed you nailed it!!!!!!!!!

I believe the people there would now be those living under bridges and in squatter camp tents. Kind of hard to say this place was worse than that.

Some wood, some concrete. Wooden floor joist support holes in the walls, floors long rotted away. Then add cabinets and furniture.

Amazing to just find a lone grave marker in the woods from 100ish years ago, and then be able to gather such information just pushing buttons in the home. Amazing that I watched the concept go from totally unheard of to being a reality. Very cool.

Homes for $1 or $10 is not that unusual. Many municipalities have done it. It works out to get the properties productive on the tax roles. The buyers have to screened though. As motts points out, all kinds of folks will come running waving a dollar, but they must also have the means to move the property forward.

Or maybe bricked up chambers of vampires or zombies.

Yup that's me shining my tiny flashlight around.

Nah the board-up job done when it was closed was hastily done with cinder block; the masonry here looks to be done by a professional at an earlier date. There's probably a shaft for an elevator or dumb waiter behind those bricked up windows.

The black spots are from paintball guns; there were a bunch of leaning pieces of fencing or other debris to hide from the opposing team.

Yup the bent thing on the right is a poor little sapling.

Yes, they're called Structural Terra Cotta. They are lightweight and hollow inside, and yep the grooves are to help adhere plaster and stucco (you wouldn't normally see these tiles in a finished building).

http://historicbldgs.com/terra_cotta.htm

Yeah I was alone on this particular night; not really worried about vicious animals on Staten Island, and the benefit of being there at 4AM is that most people are fast asleep.

The colony has always been kind of a low key place in my mind; if anyone is there, it's usually some bored teenagers. I would keep an eye out for stray paint balls during the day though!