Walking the Old Boonton Line
A Photographic Journey on the Abandoned Rails
of New Jersey
ISBN: 979-8-218-03363-7
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022942152
October 2022 - Abandoned Books

Formerly part of the New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad, the abandoned Old Boonton Line of the Erie Railroad runs through; Montclair, Glen Ridge, Bloomfield, Belleville, Newark, Kearny, Secaucus, and Jersey City. This book is a marker for the last moments when the Old Boonton Line was still perfectly abandoned, wild, and free.

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Walking the Newark Branch
A Photographic Journey on the Abandoned Rails of New Jersey
ISBN: 978-0-578-95230-7
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021943417
October 2021 - Abandoned Books

One hundred fifty years of railroad history abandoned and left to rot in place provides the backdrop for Wheeler Antabanez as he walks the Newark Branch of the Erie Railroad.

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Weird NJ #58
The Biggest Cat in the World
May 2022

In 1970, a truck driver in Jersey City saved a Macy's Day Parade cat from being discarded in a landfill. After 52 years of caring for the giant kitty he finally found an animal rescue organization to adopt his fiberglass feline. Watch the documentary and read all about it in issue #58 of Weird NJ magazine.

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13 FROM THE SWAMP
Passaic River Lore
ISBN: 1092371680
November 2019

Want to know what’s under all those bridges you’ve been seeing from your car window? Read 13 FROM THE SWAMP!

Fully illustrated with black and white photography, Wheeler is prepared to show you… not just tell you.

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Weird NJ issue #53 October 2019
Adventures at the Abandoned Wind Tunnel

Wheeler Antabanez delves into the history of the wind tunnel and interviews pro skateboarder Fred Gall about modifying and skating the full pipe..

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MATT AND JESS FOREVER
ISBN: 1727280539
December 2018
310 pages
Fiction/Novel

A satanic love story that will leave you gasping. This is Wheeler's first novel. Be prepared for an extremely wild read. (Adults Only)

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Words of Overbrook
ISBN: 1724826131
September 2018

Words of Overbrook was originally a spoken word album, but has now been transformed into a photo book-poetry hybrid. For the first time, Words of Overbrook is available in print along with never before seen images of the abandoned Essex County Hospital Center.

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THE OLD ASYLUM
AND OTHER STORIES
(second edition)
August 2018

Strange tales from the depths of the abandoned mental hospital. Inspired by a lifetime of trespassing in Overbrook Asylum, author Wheeler Antabanez captures and preserves the dark mood and creepy ambiance of the now demolished institution. In this independently released second edition, Wheeler breaks free from the constraints of publishers and presents the Old Asylum the way it was originally intended.

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Weird NJ issue #48 May 2017
Wheeler on the Passaic

Chapter 8 of Wheeler's forthcoming book Wheeler on the Passaic. Mark Moran and Wheeler take a cruise in the Sevas Natas down the Passaic River, through Newark Bay and up the Hackensack River to Snake Hill.

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WORDS OF OVERBROOK
free spoken word album

Wheeler paints verbal pictures of the abandoned Essex County Hospital Center in Cedar Grove, NJ. This wide-ranging recording delves into the history of Overbrook Asylum from the point of view of a habitual trespasser who grew up near the hospital.

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Weird NJ issue #47 October 2016
Welcome To Hell
Hilltop Collage

Wheeler pays tribute to the Overbrook Asylum and the Essex Mountain Sanatorium.

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Weird NJ issue #45 October 2015
Ghost Ships of the Arthur Kill

Captain Frank and Wheeler take a jetboat cruise to the scuttled ships of the Arthur Kill. Ride along as they visit the Staten Island Ship Graveyard, the SS Meow Man, and the abandoned McMyler coal dumper.

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Weird NJ issue #40 May 2013
Investigation of the Passaic River Gravestones

Wheeler and his band of faithful researchers delve into the history behind the mystery of the Passaic River gravestones. Join Wheeler on a weird journey into the lives and deaths of Nina Leskitz and Louis Holzer as he attempts to find out how their grave markers ended up on the banks of the Passaic River in Newark.

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Weird NJ issue #38 May 2012
Mystery of the Passaic River Gravestones

Wheeler stumbles upon a pile of gravestones on the Passaic River in Newark. He recovers one for his backyard and embarks on a weird mission to find out how the headstones got into the river.

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Weird NJ issue #36 May 2011
Hollow Hilltop
The last tunnel on the mountain

Wheeler explores the last remnant from the Essex Mountain Sanatorium: a tunnel that once stretched from the red garage buildings to the nurses quarters.

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Weird NJ issue #35 October 2010
Abandoned On The Passaic
Wheeler and X. Ray Visit The Bat Factory

X. Ray Burns of WFMU fame joins Wheeler on a walk through the abandoned bat factory in Kearny and shares his remembrances of the night it blew up.

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Weird NJ issue #31 October 2008
Wheeler's Passaic River Mail

If you sent Wheeler mail after reading Nightshade on the Passaic it probably ended up in this special section. 8 pages of weird letters pertaining to the Passaic River.

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Weird NJ Presents: Nightshade on the Passaic August 2007

Wheeler's special issue devoted entirely to his adventures on the Passaic River. The only full length narrative ever published by WNJ and a bestseller to this day.

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Weird NJ issue #29 October 2007
Nightshade on the Passaic

The article that convinced WNJ to publish a special issue about Wheeler's adventures on the river. If you haven't read this piece you haven't read the full story.

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Weird NJ issue #28 May 2007
Hilltop Care Center
Born and Razed

Two teenage boys and a pregnant girl burn down one of Wheeler's favorite haunts. Antabanez's debut story in WNJ.

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gasstationthoughts
and the daily journal of wheeler antabanez
by matt kent
Barricade Books
April 2001
isbn: 1569801991

The book that started Wheeler's career. After his arrest by the Caldwell Police Wheeler fights to get his manuscript published and to stay out of jail.

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