on the beach, originally uploaded by Desolate Places.

right field, originally uploaded by Desolate Places.

Out of the dark. Abandoned (disused) hospital, with power.

According to the caretaker of this place, it’s haunted. Supposedly there was an explosion in the boiler room many years ago that resulted in one worker’s fatality. Since then the security guards claim to see the body of the worker, sometimes they see the bottom half, sometimes the top – the man having been blown in two by the boiler explosion.

orphan, originally uploaded by Desolate Places.

It’s such a cliche’. The chair left behind in the abandoned building. You seem to always find them in the perfect light, casting shadows and oddly out of place (yet in place) if that makes sense. Did a photographer put it there to catch the light…or did some unknown person leave it there because it was such a great place to put your feet up and ponder?

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The young man showed up in Newburgh and was dead before most people even knew his name. The police had never run into him. On the street, where word travels as fast as Nextel blips, people just said a Jamaican boy got killed over at a weed house. He was 22 years old and named Orlando Grant, they learned later.

Newburgh can be tight as family. Longtime East Enders can name seemingly every person on the river side of Lutheran Street. The exception is the newcomers, often immigrants. Some follow family into the city and stay; some pass through for a bit on their way to somewhere else. Grant had come legally from Jamaica just a few months before police found him shot to death in a Lander Street basement. It was an empty building – a couple mattresses upstairs, steel grates on the windows and a reinforced door. Grant was dead before people in the neighborhood noticed he was even there. (Text taken from the Times Herald Record, Special Report on Newburgh Homicides – 15 Since Jan 1 2008).

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