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The old stationhouse on East New York Avenue in Brownsville had been sitting empty since 1985. In November 2025, demolition finally started. Before it was gone for good, I made it inside.

Oh, and in 1972, the "Kojak" production crew filmed right outside on East New York Avenue and Rockaway Avenue. You can see the Howard Houses, old storefronts, and the precinct itself in the footage.

Now the building is no more, making way for 95 units of affordable housing, including 57 apartments set aside for people leaving homeless shelters. It is a complicated legacy for a complicated place.

Full piece here: https://www.digitalinkd.net/2026/01/former-nypd-65th-and-73rd-precinct.html

One of the strangest things I've ever found in an abandoned building was fish swimming inside a tannery boiler room. 🐟🏭 That discovery led me down a rabbit hole into Gloversville's leather industry, a place that once supplied most of America's gloves.

https://www.digitalinkd.net/2026/06/cayadutta-tanning-company-inside.html

During an exploration of the former Cayadutta Tanning Company in Gloversville, NY, I came across something completely unexpected: fish swimming inside the boiler room of a long-abandoned tannery. That strange discovery opened the door to researching the site's history and the larger story of Gloversville's glove and leather industry, which once dominated American manufacturing. The tannery has since been demolished.

https://www.digitalinkd.net/2026/06/cayadutta-tanning-company-inside.html