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Infiltration Forums > US: Northeast > New guy to the Urbex world, contribution and question!(Viewed 2304 times)
GelatinousExplorer   |  | 
New guy to the Urbex world, contribution and question!
< on 6/8/2016 4:08 AM >
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hey guys i'm new to the urban exploring world and want to really give this a go for fun. my curiosity is deep and my desire for adventure is insatiable.

i do have a question though for those in the NJ/NY area... in Harrison there is a warehouse directly across the street from a famous diner. there is music playing from several outposts throughout the complex. is this a common practice for locations like these? i left quickly because i thought i saw someone but wasn't sure, i waited in my car after leaving and a few minutes later a security guy comes up to the gate and snooped around but didn't enter. i just wanted if it was causation or correlation.

here's a few photos from a water pumping station i visited not too long ago.



thanks guys!! hope to contribute again soon!
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Steed location:
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Re: New guy to the Urbex world, contribution and question!
<Reply # 1 on 6/8/2016 4:50 AM >
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It could be possible you tripped an alarm. Did the security guard arrive by car, or come from a post on or near the property? Might be worth triggering again, if you care enough about the location.

Also, music playing throughout the location? I've explored within earshot of active places and festivals with their own live and canned music, but never encountered it at a site. It actually reminds me of an anti-crime project in Korea, where they set up speakers playing classical music in alleys and poor neighbourhoods, but there's no way it's the same. Maybe it covers up another disturbing noise on site?



Dee Ashley location:
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Re: New guy to the Urbex world, contribution and question!
<Reply # 2 on 6/8/2016 5:27 AM >
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Welcome! I know nothing about the NE area, but your photos remind me of a couple places here in Texas - the first one in particular. Keep us posted on that spot if you decide to go back again.



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Re: New guy to the Urbex world, contribution and question!
<Reply # 3 on 6/8/2016 11:40 AM >
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Nice set, this is one of those "I can't believe that is still there" locations. Every time I drive past I'm amazed they haven't leveled it yet.

As for the mill, some of the floors of the buildings are still active warehouses for various businesses as far as I know. I've been there several times and never felt comfortable sneaking around. There used to be an amazing factory complex on Frank E Rodgers Blvd too, but that was taken down a few years back.

https://flickr.com.../72157648246750509


That diner is the best, by the way.



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Re: New guy to the Urbex world, contribution and question!
<Reply # 4 on 6/8/2016 5:54 PM >
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I've been to at least one place I can think of (mill in Holyoke MA that later burned down) where a radio was left plugged in and turned on but no one was there. Unnerving.

Also, a tip. Whatever program you're using to resize your photos, it's doing a bad job of it; the diagonal lines all have sawteeth.


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GelatinousExplorer   |  | 
Re: New guy to the Urbex world, contribution and question!
<Reply # 5 on 6/8/2016 10:04 PM >
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Posted by Steed
It could be possible you tripped an alarm. Did the security guard arrive by car, or come from a post on or near the property? Might be worth triggering again, if you care enough about the location.

Also, music playing throughout the location? I've explored within earshot of active places and festivals with their own live and canned music, but never encountered it at a site. It actually reminds me of an anti-crime project in Korea, where they set up speakers playing classical music in alleys and poor neighbourhoods, but there's no way it's the same. Maybe it covers up another disturbing noise on site?


security came by car like a half hour later. i do have plans to come back... but better prepared.



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Re: New guy to the Urbex world, contribution and question!
<Reply # 6 on 6/9/2016 2:13 AM >
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Posted by GelatinousExplorer


security came by car like a half hour later. i do have plans to come back... but better prepared.


Could've been a routine patrol, could've been slowly responding to a low-priority alarm. I'd bet they're not set up on site either way.



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Re: New guy to the Urbex world, contribution and question!
<Reply # 7 on 7/4/2016 7:47 PM >
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The only time I heard noises and was spooked was in Greystone, I heard either a tv or radio playing by the front door of admin, so I steered clear of that area.

If you heard music playing in the pictures you posted, it was probably scrappers doing shit. That place looks like no one cares about it.



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Re: New guy to the Urbex world, contribution and question!
<Reply # 8 on 7/4/2016 8:50 PM >
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Oh yeah, I've been to spots in the Philadelphia region where scrappers were listening to loud-ass Hip-Hop while filling up a pick-up truck full of copper pipe pieces they cut with battery-powered Sawzalls. It was a shitload of sweaty guys in wife-beaters just tearin' shit up.



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