These landscapes are all taken from the yet to be published. Book called the junkyards, which is a very long-term view on the situation out in Queens in the area known as the iron triangle or Willits point. I did not caption any of these. I’ll leave that to the larger book when I publish it at which time I will delete this essay.
In the meantime, there’s a tremendous amount of information out about this place. You can dive into it. It’s quite interesting. I would call it the last true down in dirty immigrant neighborhood left in New York City. It’s still disappearing today.
The 65 acre area known as the Iron Triangle sits on city owned land. This was the area where the city would dump it’s coal ash so naturally industry, even polluting industries were allowed to flourish, and the land was leased from the city. When Mayor Bloomberg sold 23 acres of the junkyards to millennial properties for one dollar for redevelopment, it became international news. Not just because of the sweetheart deal, but, millennial wanted to build a $4 billion shopping mall in the age of Amazon. Long story short after a lot of arguing compromises were met and the 23 acres became affordable residential property, including schools and a new $800 million soccer stadium was built.
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