Via Scott Westerfield, comes this really interesting New York Times article about New York City underworld explorers:
Alone and with cohorts, Mr. Anastasio has crawled, climbed and sometimes simply brazenly walked into countless train tunnels, abandoned subway stations, rotting factories, storm drains, towers, decaying hospitals and other shadowy remnants of the city’s infrastructure the authorities would rather he did not enter. Although he records his adventures on his Web site, ltvsquad.com, anonymity is, for him, a necessary tool.
Although, it’s a little tough to be anonymous when you post on your website and are interviewed at length in The New York Times…
While I think a lot of the photos are incredible (particularly Miru Kim‘s NSFW images), and it is a shame that some of these structures are completely closed to an interested public, I can’t say I really disagree with the M.T.A.’s position on this. These are very dangerous places to be crawling around in without training — and much less naked, as in Ms. Kim’s case.
Damn, not even any shoes. She’d better be up on her shots.
Yeah, there’s a video of her running through these abandoned underground rooms, and I kept thinking, “Man, I hope she swept the floor before that.”
They’re sometimes startling images, but she does seem just one misstep away from tetanus.
Ug, I just saw the picture of her crouched in a disintegrating chemical hood. That can’t be good.