“Since February, state police have arrested 48 people, 30 of them teens, on trespassing charges at the 723-acre site.”
IBM abandoned its 723-acre Westchester campus in 2016, and it’s sat empty ever since. Nobody bothered to demolish it or redevelop it. Now teenagers treat the dead pyramid-shaped building like a free TikTok set, and that’s 48 arrests since February for trespassing. That’s what a decade of corporate real estate neglect actually looks like. Not a line item on a balance sheet, but cops chasing kids through broken windows because nobody wanted to spend the money to tear the thing down.