347 Comments for Glenwood Power Plant

This conjures up so many images... Frankenstein's laborotory, yes, or a scene from a retro-futuristic Gotham-type city, or maybe a temple... to the God of Electricity perhaps....

Those lamp posts are incredible either way.

This probably has to be my favourite image so far. The eye is inescapably drawn to the yawning hole surrounded by twisted vines and flanked by two seriously scary lamp supports... you can almost imagine them festooned with buzzing, sparking cables and old-fashioned insulators, gearing up to deliver thousands of crackling volts for some freakish experiment...

Odd how the bridge is off-centre - this would be pure Art Deco symmetry otherwise.

Thad, after that last shot you still want to cross this bridge? =8-o

That's freakin' awesome. Like something out of one of my nightmares... yet I really want to cross! Nice...

Did Colin say tittie,can he say tittie in here?

Apparently, you've never been in a powerhouse. :D I work in all the power plants on Long Island (Northport, Port Jeff, Island Park, Glenwood and Far Rockaway) and I can tell you that they are FAR from clean. They are kept "looking clean" but they're absolutely full of asbestos and many other harmful substances (mostly insulations). You won't see it much on the turbine deck (That's what it's usually referred to as, never heard it called a "hall" ) but once you get up on the boiler itself, it's a different world.

I sincerely hope you wear a good quality respirator with 2091 or 2097 (hepa) filters for protection. Usually colored pink or marked by a pink band. Regular dust masks (tittie masks) will NOT protect you at all from asbestos fibres in the air. And even though you don't see it, it's there. It's the stuff you CAN'T see that will kill you.

Yes, the precarious staircase on the right led up to those floors. The main control board was located in that room.

A turn of the century Cathedral of Electrical Power.

Was there any way to get closer to that little alcove sticking out on the second floor?

DECOR.....yeah, the title says it all. today this would be a "shoe box" configuration

WOW, what a textbook study in perspective

most of today's industrial bldgs. seem to lack the panashe of the older structures, both interior & exterior. and your photography of it is outstanding.

your photography is on a par with some of the best work i've seen done of the bradbuey bldg. in LA, really outstanding.

Was the elevator still hanging in there? I belive they use to take them away... In my hometown someone accutlly bought an old elevator from a builing that was torn down... He installed it at home... Wierd

well pulleys dont have spokes, that be a gear, but looks like a hell of alot of rust.