So, this is where they made Pyridine...

We were driving around the hilly region to the Northeast of New York City, looking for our hotel in Central Valley. We had, by that point, missed the turn a couple of times. Things were going swell, by which I mean swelling with impatience.

Suddenly, suburbs and stripmalls gave way to a brief flash of industrial decay: heavy rail, rust, smokestacks, distilling towers. Big stone buildings. What was that? We made a note to do a followup investigation the next day.

That was the (now defunct) Nepera Chemical Company. Apparently caught by tightening environmental regulations, it closed in the 2000s. It's nearby disposal area is now an EPA Superfund Site. It appears to be crumbling while it waits to be transformed into suburbs and strip malls.

We stopped to take pictures from outside the fence, and admire how entropy takes over things.

Of course, you'll have to ask someone else what it looks like inside.