Inside the abandoned, once-Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) power station — and eventual Occupy movement squatter’s paradise — known as the Bat Cave, Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY. (2012)
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Inside the abandoned, once-Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) power station — and eventual Occupy movement squatter’s paradise — known as the Bat Cave, Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY. (2012)