Brooklyn – Scouting NY

Exploring New York City’s Ghost Airport – A Trip To Floyd Bennet Field

This is the entrance to New York City’s ghost airport: Floyd Bennett Field.

I was walking to pick up a fire hydrant permit in Brooklyn yesterday when I noticed a really interesting ghost

The Brooklyn Queens Expressway, or BQE, is one of New York’s more miserable driving experiences. For some reason, the BQE

This is Greenpoint’s beautiful St. Elias Church, located on shady Kent Street. And yes, that’s a FOR RENT sign on

Down among the industrial warehouses in Gowanus… …bordering on the canal… …is an old vacuum cleaner bag factory. Today, there’s

After watching the premiere of Boardwalk Empire last night, I was really excited to check out the Atlantic City set

Spotted on a wall in Williamsburg… -SCOUT

On two different movies I’ve scouted for recently, I was asked to find a genuine “occult store.” Of course, by

I think this is quite possibly my favorite road sign in New York: You can find this decaying sign on

Note: Most of this has since been torn down. When I heard the rumors that Satan’s real estate division, Thor

Just wanted to share a building with you that really made my day while out scouting recently. I was searching

I’ve been scouting warehouse rooftops in Brooklyn on the East River recently. Though this one in Greenpoint has a pretty

I was walking down Hudson Ave today in Brooklyn’s Vinegar Hill neighborhood when I realized I’d never taken any of

Note: This does not exist anymore! Read the comments for more information! Do not go out to Governors Island looking

Hidden on the second floor of this building adjacent to the JMZ elevated train line in South Williamsburg is Frenchie’s

I was driving down Bedford Ave around the Crown Heights area in Brooklyn when I passed this great neo-Gothic building

I love traveling down Flatbush Ave past Prospect Park because there’s so much history to find hidden on every block.

The two square blocks bordered by Union and Lorimer Aves. and Devoe and Powers Sts. in Williamsburg are as pleasant

I love Forgotten NY’s Street Necrology section, in which they pour over old city maps to find streets and roads

It’s funny how you stumble on interesting bits in the unlikeliest of places. I was scouting Broadway in Brooklyn, which

If you were traveling down Flushing Ave around 1904, this was what you would have seen: Jump forward in time

Nothing is better than driving through a neighborhood I’ve never been to and stumbling on something like this: You can

Watch out when you’re coming out of the Bedford Avenue L-Train stop in Williamsburg… …Someone hung mistletoe above the stairwell

I was early for an appointment at a Brooklyn college this afternoon to shoot some science labs, so I stopped