The Mets occasional summer fireworks nights were shot from the Iron Trinagle, mostly, and another location, which is above Roosevelt Avenue elavated subway bridge with Willet’s Point and the Mets’ Citi Field in the background.
Willets Point is actaully out in Bayside, Queens, and the Junkyards, or, Iron Triangle, along Flushing Creek is mostly associated with Willets Point and is considered a seaparate Queens neighborhood, named after the street, not the geography, like it is over in Bayside.
The Mets used to play at Shea Stadium, that was set way back from Flushing Creek and its toxic industrial environment, but they built the new stadium one block from Willet’s Point Blvd., in the heart of the Iron triangle.
Today the area next to Citi Field has been wiped clean of junkyards, and is being heavily redeveloped into housing, retail, a huge soccer stadium and possibly a casino. In fact, the streets from which i shot, in the junkyards, are now gone and will be covered by new development soon.
