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Disclaimer: This location is not completely abandoned, one of the floors is occupied.

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The short story of this factory building is that it manufactured many different things, from paint rollers to medicine bottles to ball bearings. The longer story is once I was out exploring by myself in Dover, New York (not where this factory is located) when I ran into Rob Yasinsac outside an old farmhouse. Rob’s Hudson Valley Ruins site has been a decades-long exploring staple for many urban explorers. I startled him by jumping out of a farmhouse he was photographing, and we got to talking about its history before I realized who he was. Since that day, we’ve done quite a bit of exploring together, and this factory is one of the places he showed me. So thanks, Rob! Also sorry for scaring you. 

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(last photo by Rob Yasinsac)

To see more photos from this factory, go to the flickr

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