This past october we made it inside. We being myself, and three other highschool kids, taking tips from taggers we know on how to get inside. Other than some tags in the basement and staircases and some smashing on the ground floor, the majority of the building felt untouched. Rails hung down from the basement ceiling, where some machinery remains. Cameraless we wandered through the southern section, fairly weary of the northern and sometimes lit part. A good scan of the satelite pictures was very useful in not getting lost as rooms feel to be repeating themselves. The basement featured rooms of machine parts and the remains of some electrical equipment. In an office type room they had left all sorts of desks, the most interesting being one covered in chainlinks with a single magnifying glass. We headed upstairs and took the small white bridge into the second building, fairly daunting in its vastness. One or two rooms were stopped mid construction and aside from that floor seemed to be an endless series of columns and a couple of large elevators.

We took a staircase up to another floor, frozen at the sound of a dog barking we later laughed it off, knowing that security guards don't bark, not untill its all too late. On the upper floor we found a burnt piece of machinery, surrounded in tape next to a very mash like stretcher.

We returned to the north building and took the stairs to the roof. Looking out off my first real UE skyscape, something I'm not likely to be forgetting soon. We walked across all the beams between vents over to the silver watertower. There was a red bench where two of us sat and I and another climbed to the steep ladder to the top. We had just taken our first look across broadway sweating when those below alerted us that someone had whistled and we decided to leave. We came out the way we came in and drove off to celebrate not being arrested at Lollicup, consipicously covered in soot and dirt.



(I may edit this later, or add my second story)