Schwartz Chemical Co.
Queens, NY
Looming over the East River, the Schwartz Chemical Co. building is
a massive brick structure with four towering steel stacks. Probably
abandoned as a manufacturing plant in the 1970s or 1980s, half of
the cavernous edifice was converted into a two-court indoor tennis
facility in the early to mid 1990s. Today, the tennis courts remain,
but the business moved across the street to a new bubble. All in all,
the building was last used in 2002 as evidenced by tournament calendars
in the office. Surprisingly, someone is still paying the electric
bill because most of the lights by the tennis courts turned on and
an electric clock still read the correct time (albeit being not adjested
for daylight savings). We were nice, so we turned them off when we
left.
| Date: |
9 January, 2005 |
| Crew: |
Deltacbravo, Bish |
| Entry tactics: |
Fence hole |
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