Billboard Shells

Pitching the Demographic: A Message of Nothing (Coney Island Creek)

Every billboard husk is like a fingerprint—unique—the setting, the details, the way sunlight plays off it at certain times.

Multicolored hues of sunset trapped between empty billboard

Double Duty: Cell Phone Tower/Beacon of Emptiness


Clouds seen through a billboard shell





Billboard seen through hollow in trestle bridge

Billboard shell’s gridwork silhouette



Sunset over billboard shell beside viaduct

Derelict Movie Palace (Lowes Kings, Flatbush)

“A teenage Barbra Streisand worked as an usher here. After the 3,000 seat theater closed in 1977 the city bought it to prevent its demolition.”

Source: Walking Brooklyn

Northeastern Gothic: Admirals’ Row (Brooklyn Navy Yard)

“Chain link fencing keeps vandals away from Admirals' Row, once-elegant officers' houses now so decrepit that trees push up through the rooftops . . . Bordered by the Farragut housing projects at the tip of Fort Greene and the elevated Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, locals know [the Navy Yard] as the place to fetch towed cars.”

Source: New York Times

Abandoned Toys (Lost Youth)

Derelict Government Installation

Color Among the Ruins

Brooklyn Playgrounds (No. 1)