Towns that have been abandoned or remain small for some intentional or uncontrollable reason.
Seneca Village in Central Park was once a small town. But Seneca Village is no more; it’s wiped off the map. I’m a native New Yorker and grew up on the Upper East Side: 96th and Madison. As an adult, I lived not four blocks from what was Seneca Village, an area about seven …
A friend of mine grew up in Tasmania, Australia, and although I can’t recall the name of his town, it is wiped from the map. It’s one of the numerous mining ghost towns on that island and belongs to the silent fraternity of abandoned (“ghost”) towns across the world. There’s something romantic, sad, mysterious, scary, …