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Motts Wallpaper please!!!!!!!

finally made it there in Oct i'ts great for an latent UR would go again the guide really knew his stuff

fairytale

..over troubled waters.

I would have loved to stay here overnight, asleep near the fireplace, when it was in active use. Amazing.

Just watched a show, Paranormal Asylum, and lo and behold, recognized the exterior shots of the Bannerman Arsenal from this site. How sad that it's crumbling.

At one time did these buildings have electricity and running water?

I remember taking the train past the castle the day after one side collapsed. I was so shocked! Half of the wall pictured here is completely gone. But there's a great conservation effort underway, and Bannerman's is now open for tours. Check out http://www.bannermancastle.org/index.html for more info!

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well i like social studies

during the 1960's and 70's, I lived and flew my aircraft from Spring Valley, N.Y. Nearly everytime flying up or down the Hudson, I would buzz this old island knowing little more than it had been an armory at one time. I saw it from a rail car traveling to Chicago, on the NY Central at another time. Whenever I saw this haunting place, and during its continued deterioration, I was consumed with curiosity and awe at what I was looking at. It is so sad for me to read about its life now in a book titled;THE HUDSON a histoty, by Tom Lewis....

As Liz Robbins from The NYTimes says: "… an enigmatic ruin in the middle of the Hudson River, a dreamy landmark for passing train travelers… ",
Yes: I had been one of those instantly charmed passers-by, since for a couple of times (both in 1999 and 2001) I boarded the Amtrack train back and forth between NYC and Rochester, NY.

An old ruins seeker as I was, I couldn't help promising at once to myself that I would come back at the soonest of my possibilities just kayaking right on to the spot…

It was around the end of August, 2001, when from atop the Empire State Building and looking downtown towards the WTC Towers I told to myself that I could take all the time in the world to visit them: maybe on the next coming week; or maybe also on the next coming summer… So with none of such visit done, yet, I plainly left from JFK airport on September 2nd, 2001, quietly awaiting my postponed next tour to the Twin Towers…

So while I still have to get hold of that supposedly useful kayak (maybe a red one, who knows… ) to boldly land on the haunted island, I'm learning today (i. e. end of December, 2011) by browsing your noticeable website that almost half of the Bannerman's Arsenal's remnants fell down to the ground exactly two years ago, due to a very much likely weathering of the old wrecked structure.
Thus, after the many fires and explosions which just as likely stroke the arms depot across its lifetime, I now hope at least it won't be completely swept away by some unexpected forthcoming massive river's flood…

To the most admirable contributor named Ghost of the Delete Key I would like to tell that since from his many keen descriptions he very clearly shows to have extensively cruised along the years the whole island with its extraordinary ruins, and rather skillfully crawled across every single inch of it all leaving nothing unexplored, I think I will appoint him as my own personal guide when (yeah: when??) I'm back on my long desired single person tour of the place!

I only wonder how he could always so easily make it all the way through, though, as Mr. Motts himself says: "Submerged bulkheads and other structures make the surrounding area very dangerous for boaters; the island remains private property and is watched closely by preservation groups." , whereas the latter are perhaps more obstructive than the former... although I eventually believe these are definitely the true local antiques that U. S. citizens should be proud of, and pay caring attention to!

@John
You're kidding right?

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