Maspeth

Maspeth is in Queens and is almost entirely industrial; it might be, from one perspective, one of the most unpleasant areas to walk around in the entire city.   It is home to recycling facilities, scrap metal joints, garbage dumps, warehouses, sewage processing facilities, concrete factories, etc.   You can also find the sources of many things you see in the city, like places where the various food carts go home to sleep at night, places where they store the scaffolding you see everywhere on the streets, and things like that.   The traffic is mostly heavy trucks, and you rarely see any pedestrians.   And no restaurants, cafes, etc.  But I get a perverse sort pleasure walking around with my camera and finding interesting things to see.   I like these kinds of no man's lands, a few subway stops away from Manhattan.   Here are a few things that caught my eye:

At a certain point, there was an incredible amount of heavy smoke coming out of this facility.  My eyes were burning.  I have no idea what it was, but it certainly didn't seem legal.  I didn't want to get closer.

Decaying industrial buildings:

This was sitting on the street:

 This was a recycling facility for colored wires and tubes of some kind:

I walked under the Kosciuszko Bridge, which is falling apart and being replaced.   In fact, it is scheduled to be blown up this summer, as soon as the new bridge (seen behind it) is ready.

There are many warehouses that exist to supply merchandise to all the stores of New York. There was something appealing the facade of this one.

A cleaning brush:

Some of the paper waste of New York seems to end up here:

This place had something to do with gravel I guess, but it looked abandoned to me.

Color combinations:

A typical streetscape, flooded for some reason.

This place was active, it appeared to be crushing rocks or gravel.

A lot of old pieces of cars were stored here:

Recycling wires and metal:

A very rare tree against a nicely colored brick wall.

At a certain point my path was blocked by a very long train at a street level crossing.   I think these cars were filled with garbage.

Some of the warehouses seem to be filled to the brim with mysterious things

This was a steel works:

A furniture warehouse: