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# “Steps to Nowhere” Redux: In Which Lisanne! Gains National Prominence
- URL: https://bklyner.com/18698-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2011-06-30T13:00:07.000Z
- Updated: 2011-06-30T13:00:07.000Z
- Author: Erica Sherman
- Tags: #API-Imported

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/sb_lisanne_steps_to_nowhere.jpg "sb_lisanne_steps_to_nowhere")

Source: Lisanne!/Flickr

Apparently Sheepshead Bay is [not the only place](http://weburbanist.com/2011/06/26/please-dont-stair-a-dozen-spooky-steps-to-nowhere/?ref=bklyner.com) with a set of “[Steps to Nowhere](/%E2%80%9Csteps-to-nowhere%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-in-vibrant-technicolor/).” I was surprised to discover just how many “Steps to Nowhere” exist all over the place, but Web Urbanist — which “covers the collective life of our times through the lens of creative visual culture in the beating hearts of our cities” — saw fit to dedicate a comprehensive pictorial to the semi-obscure subject… *checkit*:

> Like a carpenter who makes stairs, I’m always thinking one step ahead. Unfortunately the builders of these 12 [strange staircases](http://weburbanist.com/2011/01/24/suspended-staircases-18-hanging-stair-tread-sets/?ref=bklyner.com) never arrived at a landing, leaving us to wonder where these spooky [steps to nowhere](http://weburbanist.com/2010/09/27/stairs-to-nowhere-15-works-of-surreal-staircase-sculpture/?ref=bklyner.com) were meant to lead.

And here’s what Web Urbanist wrote about Sheepshead Bay’s “Steps to Nowhere”:

> If you’re in a hurry to catch the Long Island Railroad’s Q Train at the Neck Road station on Gravesend Neck Road and East 16th Street, be sure to keep your head up as you ascend the stairs – or your trip may come to a sudden, painful end. The flight of concrete steps appears to run straight into a wall of concrete blocks ala Harry Potter but it wasn’t always that way: these steps served foot traffic to and from the old Sheepshead Bay Race Track from 1893 to 1924.

In retrospect, I still think we have the coolest “Steps to Nowhere,” although props to [David Johnson](http://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/545456/speeding-jet-ski-north-wales/like/?ref=bklyner.com), the amazing “End of the Shoreline” photographer. Those photos almost made my brains fall out, they are so awesome.