The United States of decay: Forgotten ruins of once booming towns that litter landscape in some of America's most populated areas

A new collection of photographs showcases some of the abandoned buildings and decaying infrastructure that can be found throughout New York and other northeastern states.
Photographers Daniel Barter and Daniel Marbaix visited dozen of locations on their journey which took in New York City and the infamous Rust Belt, once home to America’s heavy industry.
They visited dozens of now derelict spaces including the Seaview Tuberculosis Sanatorium on Staten Island, The Steubenville Steel works in Ohio, plus the Rockland Psychiatric Hospital and Buffalo Central Terminal in New York state.
They found countless examples of decaying infrastructure including abandoned power plants, hospitals, asylums, schools, theaters, steel mills, prisons, factories, hotels, cathedrals, blast furnaces, and convents to a boat graveyard.
The stunning collection of photographs has been gathered in a book entitled ‘States of Decay: Urbex New York & Americas Forgotten North East.’
The photographers say their aim was to give people a glimpse of the broken and doomed spaces which have been left behind in some of the country's largest urban areas almost as monuments to a different era that is now gone. The book is now available on buy on Amazon in the U.S. and U.K.
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A new collection of photographs showcases some of the abandoned buildings and decaying infrastructure that can be found throughout New York and other northeastern states

Photographers Daniel Barter and Daniel Marbaix visited dozen of locations on their journey which took in New York City and the infamous Rust Belt, once home to America's heavy industry

They visited dozens of now derelict spaces including the Seaview Tuberculosis Sanatorium on Staten Island, The Steubenville Steel works in Ohio, plus the Rockland Psychiatric Hospital and Buffalo Central Terminal in New York state

The photographers found countless examples of decaying infrastructure including abandoned power plants, hospitals, asylums, schools, theaters, steel mills, prisons, factories, hotels, cathedrals, blast furnaces, and convents to a boat graveyard

This stunning collection of photographs has been gathered in a new book entitled 'States of Decay: Urbex New York & Americas Forgotten North East'

The photographers say their aim was to give people a glimpse of the broken and doomed spaces which have been left behind in some of the country's largest urban areas almost as monuments to an era that is now gone