The New York Times – The industrial slivers of northern Brooklyn and western Queens that sit in the shadow of the Kosciuszko Bridge are, to most New Yorkers, forsaken territory.

But on these hinterlands near the Kosciuszko, the aging bridge that connects Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to Maspeth, Queens, along the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway over Newtown Creek, is a thriving commercial ecosystem. It is inhabited by freight trucks that come and go, a scrap metal yard, wholesale distributors of flowers and Bangladeshi foods and a factory that produces steel doors. [read more…]