[PHOTOS] Farm Land + Squid cocks

**Faceman** · Feb 27th, 2008, 01:02 AM

Then....I got poison ivy all over my face and neck:

Luckily this is after a couple days and it started to go away.

Some more images in an open DIR: http://www.cleanandquiet.com/ex/fcft/

**Liebgott** · Feb 27th, 2008, 01:04 AM

lol those are some interesting drawings and buildings.....

**deceiver** · Feb 27th, 2008, 01:19 AM

Well at least the poison ivy were worth it for those nice pics hah!

**Stellar** · Feb 27th, 2008, 01:26 AM

nice batch of photos there mang.

**Stroddy** · Feb 27th, 2008, 02:50 AM

Squid cocks? In b4 swedish.

**Zirconium Blade** · Feb 27th, 2008, 09:23 AM

I love pictars!

**El Capitan** · Feb 27th, 2008, 09:47 AM

I love photos like that, nice job there

**Danimale** · Feb 27th, 2008, 12:33 PM

Thanks for the photos!

Could you give more info of the subject matter. I would just like to wrap my head around them. My mind wanders about stuff like this and I try to imagine how thing become what they are. I imagine pictures of the structures being used for what they were meant, perhaps people having an elegant gala circa 1940. Then I always wish I could have time elapse photography from then to now and see the change take place.

**Faceman** · Feb 27th, 2008, 07:28 PM

http://www.preserve.org/farmcolony.htm

The New York City Farm Colony – Seaview Hospital Historic District, the first historic district in Staten Island, was designated in 1985. The district consists of the buildings and grounds of two municipal institutions sited on approximately 320 acres at the center of Staten Island. The two institutions lie across Brielle Avenue from one another. For two short periods in their history they fell under the same administration, but they were founded separately – The Seaview Hospital as a tuberculosis hospital, the Farm Colony as a poor farm.

In roughly 1975 it was closed down, I'm sure before that it wasn't in much use. Then the vandals, kids and such moved in and trashed the place. So you're looking at 25+ years of abandonment. In the picture before the bunker, we actually climbed up into there. Was pretty crazy considering the whole place was burnt and only the stairwells were left intact. Guess the floors were wood in that building.

Then the bunkers are Fort Tilden. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Tilden Those bunkers are from WW1. I thought WWII. Either way that was a nice visit, minus the poison ivy/oak/sumac/whoknowswhat that got all over my face from that day. One bunker that was pretty well hidden we had to climb into a hole then slide down a sand hill to get in. Was pretty crazy, pitch black inside.