New York's Lost Admiral's Row | ABANDONED

[@ITSHISTORY]

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[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

I have many many many photos taken of Admiral’s row right up to when they were finally demolished. One was left standing. As they often do in New York something could be landmark then they let it collapse, then tear it down.

[@fortress1133]

I moved to Long Island 5 years ago and was amazed at all the history. This was basically home base for the Revolutionary war and where the British were turned back and defeated by General Washington. Several buildings from the era remain and are protected by the state. Some dating back to the 1600s.

[@FrankGutowski-ls8jt]

My Dad worked there. Went there with him in about 53 and for family day to tour flight and hangar decks of the Independence in about 61.

[@RobertPaskulovich-fz1th]

I served aboard USS Independence CV-62.

[@FrankGutowski-ls8jt]

@ The Constellation was in a nearby dry dock on family day. Fire aboard her a few months earlier killed 23 BNY workers. Family day trip was a nice adventure. I was 11. Rode up and down the elevator. Dad was a welder and showed us parts he’d built, like hold downs on the flight deck that far better finished than they needed to be.

[@ernshaw78]

Can’t get over the abysmal failure to preserve any of this as cool places and things for the area. I’m ashamed.

[@theequalizer9154]

Real estate greed..

[@m.hughmungus121]

Taxes get diverted to police enforcement , prisons and welfare - and the taxpayer allows it

[@rogerpenske2411]

@@theequalizer9154wrong

[@rogerpenske2411]

@@m.hughmungus121 as with all social programs, welfare provides the customers for law enforcement and prisons

[@rogerpenske2411]

The previous to psycho babbling excuses, not with standing, big cities, go through cycles of ghettoization and gentrification.

[@David-v2t8h]

That one lone house ….surrounded by a sea of asphalt and big box stores……. now looks like a broken smile, with lots of missing teeth. Sad

[@luiszuluaga6575]

It’s a crying shame that any of those buildings were sacrificed for soulless box stores and not even well-thought out brutalist architecture.

[@bender7565]

1st carrier I cruised on was built there, the Indy is gone too.

[@genebigs1749]

What a shame. Such beautiful history gone forever.

[@arthurbilenker2622]

The Navy owned property into the early 1990s on the side of the old hospital. About one hundred Navy personnel were assigned there as Navy Support Facility New York. I was one of them. I served there as a Navy dentist from 85-86. I would run behind Admirals row at lunchtime most days. I would run up and down the piers. On Fridays I would run over the Brooklyn Bridge to lower Manhattan onto the Coast Guard ferry at the Battery, run around Governors Island and back. I also built a 1966 Chevelle at the old gas station by the Expressway side. Probably the last thing built at the yard before the Navy pulled out. It was a great duty station. Nobody wanted to go there because it was an expensive area and New York was a dump at the time. Now it totally different. Upscale hipster land. One time my Commanding Officer came up from Philadelphia to inspect the clinic. He was a runner so I took him out the gate for a run. When we hit the street he looked around at the run down graffitied buildings and said “You run in this ?” I replied “ This neighborhood is improving. Last week they murdered their first Yuppie”. Things were starting to look up back then.

[@FrankGutowski-ls8jt]

My Dad worked there post war-72. Took me in 53 by bus and subway to a physical exam. What a huge adventure! We’d moved from JCity to suburban NJ around then. I recall thinking how old Brooklyn buildings looked as he carried me from the subway to the navy yard gate.

[@SB-qm5wg]

Wow, they got Wegman's in NYC now.

[@J.M.Chadwick6]

I was surprised to see that too.

[@jetsons101]

Another fine historical watch thanks to Ryan......

[@andyrob3259]

Americans can’t stop talking about how proud they are about their history yet always seem to demolish it. Those houses could have been retained and you could have still built new apartments BEHIND them. And kept the gardens in front and added greenery in a high density area.

[@kerrylawson7515]

@@andyrob3259 Well, we're not a monolith. Some would save every outhouse, some would bulldoze every monument. Lol

[@junowhos]

Loved this one! Thank you for consistently keeping Brooklyn in the fold. I hope at some point you can take a deep dive into Brooklyn’s Historic Weeksville. Thank you for your great content.

[@jimparsons9454]

Thank you for sharing a piece of NYC history.

[@dennisd3]

I’ve passed these buildings numerous times but never knew the history. Thanks!

[@WillyP718]

Can you do a video on East New York, Brooklyn? I've always wondered the history of it there, especially New Lots Ave.

[@HearTruth]

Lot's of watery graves from Ft Greene pk to Navy Yard this is how the beloved Gov't takes care of used up human resources for the Controller's

[@pitsnipe5559]

Spent several months in dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1974.

[@AFExploration]

wasnt new amsterdam also named new angouleme by the french before the english arrived?

[@cathyhouston]

My father worked there until he had an accident around 1962/63

[@RobertPaskulovich-fz1th]

I served aboard USS Independence CV-62.

[@asylumlover]

THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@allenschmitz9644]

Dude no one can heat a turd bld. Like those...coal was there furnace juice.😅

[@HankPanky]

SoDoSoPa

[@eriknelson45]

Don't want some china 2$ watch

[@asylumlover]

THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!