Boarded up Buildings in Flushing

I felt like a real urban explorer last week when taking some photos of buildings near a certain facility in Flushing. A security guard questioned what I was doing and informed me that the buildings belong to the facility. I wondered why security didn't want pictures taken on a public street and why they would inform me who the buildings belonged to (nice security guarding!). Two of these look like they may have been beautiful homes once. See the stained glass windows in the white house.