People Keep Sneaking Into an Empty IBM Campus - and Then Getting Arrested

Why an Abandoned IBM Campus Troubles a NY Town

Trespassers chasing social media clout have turned a long-empty IBM complex into a headache for Somers, New York, reports the Wall Street Journal 's Scott Calvert. The hulking, pyramid-topped campus designed in the '80s by IM Pei's firm was once home to 2,300 workers; it now draws "urban explorers"...

People Keep Sneaking Into an Empty IBM Campus - and Then Getting Arrested

Since February, New York state police have arrested 48 people for trespassing on a former IBM campus in Somers, New York, reports the Wall Street Journal. 30 of the arrests were teenagers. The long-vacant site has become a magnet for so-called urban explorers, who prowl abandoned malls, hospitals, power plants, amusement parks, factories and any other disused structure they can breach... [I]t's been turbocharged by artsy videos on Instagram and …