For visitors and residents of Manhattan alike, curiosity abounds about the upper floors of buildings. In Alphabet City downtown, fewer places attract stares and wonder than East Village Farms on Avenue A. Stretching the entire block between E. 6th and 7th Streets, this enormous grocery occupies a massive windowless hulk that originally housed the Hollywood Theater until its closure in 1959.

Local photographer Kevin Shea Adams managed to sweet talk his way upstairs late one night and captured a spectacularly dilapidated auditorum-turned-storeroom that recalls the work of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's theater project, which we blogged about recently.