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Baseball and Brake Pads
Citi Field stands tall in the background of Willet’s Point, Queens, NYC, just beyond the 7 Train Subway stop on the trip from Manhattan’s Times Square. Deserted stadium parking lots wait for 2019’s Opening Day, reminding the observer that the Mets will play no September baseball this year. Most summer visitors to this neighborhood look…
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Willet’s Point: New York’s disappearing Iron Triangle
The Iron Triangle in New York might not mean anything to you unless you need a quick and relatively inexpensive way to get your car fixed. There is no particular reason to go here – it’s smelly, dirty, unkept and, some would say, unsafe. But, if, on-the-edge neighborhoods, migrant communities and their stories, and automotive…
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