In the shadow of Citi Field, home to the New York Mets baseball team, mechanics and panel beaters work in corrugated iron structures. This is Willets Point in the New York borough of Queens.
The industrial area, also known as the Iron Triangle, features scrapyards, tyre workshops and auto-glass shops. Some tenants are fighting relocation amid development plans, local media say.
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While it’s uncertain what exact form the redevelopment will take, plans include housing, shops, a hotel and convention centre. Vacant premises show some businesses have already moved on.
For now at least the industrial area, with its pot-holed streets that pool with water after heavy rain, work and life go on. Many of the workers are immigrants.
In this gritty corner of Queens, a borough that covers more than a third of New York City, the days of these makeshift structures may be numbered.
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A woman selling drinks pushes a cart in the Willets Point area.
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A worker sits on a bicycle.
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A worker reorganizes tyres.
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A worker walks through a junkyard.
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Soccer is played on a television.
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A man works on a minibus.
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A man sands panel work on a car in a vacated premises.