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Posted by Mitch45 on Wed Mar 2 17:47:28 2011, in response to Re: LIRR Westbridge Station, posted by Brighton Private on Thu Oct 21 14:01:24 2010. "In that same photo, you can still see the ash dump, owned, I believe, by the Brooklyn Ash Removal Company, made famous by "The Great Gatsby" and eventually the location of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs and Flushing Meadow Park."Caro talks about that ash dump in The Power Broker, in the chapters preceding Moses and his role in the city putting together the 1939 Fair. Apparently before the city started to clean up that part of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the ash removal company would dump two trainloads of ash and garbage on the site every day. (Caro maintains thathe Brooklyn Ash Removal Company had a private rail right of way through the park to the dump site. Who knows where this rail line started from or where it ran.) Apparently one of the ash piles grew into a small mountain which was called "Mount Corona". |
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