“Discover the Haunting Beauty: 20 Enchanting Abandoned Places Where Nature Holds the Ultimate Power”
Floyd Bennet Field was NYC’s first municipal airport until LaGuardia airport became the domestic flight hub. It was then sold to the U.S. Navy in 1941, until the war’s end, when it became a Naval Air Station.
Since 1974 it’s had park status, with the original airport hangars reclaimed nature with grass and other foliage growing inside.