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The Iron Triangle

- CartLegger - Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 : goo

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The Land that Infrastructure Forgot
In the shadow of Shea Stadium, on the shores of Flushing Bay, this stubborn fossil of old NYC squats.
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To be in the Willetts Point area feels like taking a step back into the 19th century of America. No, they did not have cars, but nor did they have paving, or much in the way of central govt. services.
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That’s the way it is here. The Iron Triangle is slowly being starved for infrastructure by a city that wants to eradicate the body shops and remediate it for development. You can read more on that on wirednewyork:www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4621
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As you can see, its pretty gruesome. Maybe that’s not a bad idea. But, where will all the auto shops go? The city is in a state of denial, so the Iron Triangle rusts away and away.
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But you can always find something to smile about between muffler jobs.
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CE: Amazing! Doesn't look like New York at all!

iman: 11th Apr 2007 - 00:38 GMT

man there's a lot of parts of ny that look like that.

groovehouse: 11th Apr 2007 - 00:48 GMT

Very cool... literally in the shadows of Shea. Thanks for the google map link.

CartLegger: 11th Apr 2007 - 01:19 GMT

I think its an easy an imminently applicable tool for citynoisers. Try it out, ya'll!
Its just the next tab over on the googlemaps homepage.

Jamie: 11th Apr 2007 - 12:24 GMT

I wonder if there's some way of integrating this nicely with the site. Interesting.

CartLegger: 13th Apr 2007 - 01:29 GMT

I think its just up to citynoise posters linking to it for now...

ask yourself, do you have a Google My Map yet???

BZZZP: 24th Apr 2007 - 17:30 GMT

i was chased on down this "street" on my bike by 2 rottweilers.
the workers came out of the shops and hooted. i have no illusions as to whom they were rooting for.
good times. i finally lost the dogs just as the road ended and turned under the subway tracks...

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