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Just three kilometers north of the upper reaches of Manhattan, where the city gives way to the Hudson Valley, an eerie relic of industrial America rusts quietly on the banks of the Hudson River.
The Glenwood Power Station was built in 1906, designed by the same architects who created the majestic Grand Central Station, but today it's better known as the 'Gates of Hell'.
The massive building is shrouded in mystery, a decaying monument to America's industrial past, but it once powered the city's newly-built subways, pumping energy to the electrified rails and moving New Yorkers about their modern city.
Built by the New York Central Railroad company in 1906, the Glenwood Power Station powered the railroad for 30 years, before it became cheaper for the company to purchase its electricity rather than generating it.
Next, Con Edison took over, using the station to power the surrounding area.In 1968, new technologies rendered Glenwood's turbines obsolete and the station was finally abandoned.
Since then, the slowly rotting edifice has been the subject of much debate. Its skeletal form rusts and topples and some allege it's become the scene of brutal gang initiations and other deviant activities.
The building makes the perfect backdrop for creepy thrillers and zombie movies, and filmmakers and photographers regularly make use of it, a piece of history in our post-industrial era. At present, no decisions have been made about its future.
Read more and see pictures - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2380357/Gates-Hell-Eerie-pictures-abandoned-Yonkers-power-station-built-1906-used-backdrop-zombie-movies-brutal-gang-initiations.html
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Link to this post - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/08/gates-of-hell-abandoned-power-station.html
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