Act Now: Free Metal in Greenpoint

Forget about street furniture -- as far as sidewalk finds go, finding a metal wheel is the new finding a mid-century armchair! Restless spotted this gem in Greenpoint and reports that it's gone unclaimed for months. It's likely too heavy to throw over ones shoulder, but apparently metal is the hot commodity of sidewalk scavenging these days (he reports that people are often seen "walking from Long Island City across the Pulaski Bridge early in the morning with strange metal articles").

If it stays put, maybe Darius Jones can transform it, or Revs can adorn it.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on April 9, 2008 3:01 PM

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RevHarley

YA SUBTEXTURE!!!!

You tell UM

b33n

yep... that's the same Production Stage where the Busta Rhymes shooting took place...

http://gothamist.com/2006/02/06/busta.php

chuzzlewit

one time about five of us spent a week cutting up a huge furnace/boiler/mike mulligan thing and heaving it out of a basement with $$ in our eyes - it almost killed each of us more than once...for years we would get drunk in his kitchen and laugh the check for 97 dollars stuck to the fridge; but then again none of us were Jamaican or Mexican.

greenjeans

that thing is outside Broadway Stages, and has been, as others have pointed out, for years. It had been there for years when I worked there 3 years ago.

I think the nuts who run that place "own" the wheel.

zoofroy

"The wheel is sitting out by that crazy waste plant complex or whatever it is, the thing with the big shiny space-age looking cones. What the hell is that place?"

That's the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant:

http://nymag.com/arts/architecture/reviews/35526/

GM

camera_club that's newtown creek wastewater treatment plant. The giant cones are called digestors where concentrated stuff from wastewater is broken down with bacteria. Various things are released, one of which is methane and is used as an energy source to power some of the plant.

The waterfront plaza was built because all NYC capital projects require (by law?) a certain percentage of funds to go to parkland. Well, at least DEP projects. That park is eventually going to continue further up the canal.

sasso

exactly.

this has been here for a long, long time.

great research!

camera_club

The wheel is sitting out by that crazy waste plant complex or whatever it is, the thing with the big shiny space-age looking cones. What the hell is that place? They built an expensive looking waterfront plaza area but no one is ever in that area to use it. Any insight?

matty

I wonder if it would cost more to move it than the price you'd get for selling.

Hence its permanence.

glennQNYC

Sell it on ebay... Pick up only. ;)

New York Shitty

Subtexture is correct.

That gear has been here as long (probably longer) than I have. That would be 8 years.

subtexture

welcome to greenpoint newbies!

that's been sitting there for years!

subtexture

welcome to greenpoint newbies!

that's been sitting there for years.

sakebalboa

WOW that thing is huge!

babyhitler

yeah. There are these Jamaican and Mexican gang of metal poachers that scour the city looking to take any and all iron and copper items available. I heard it's a pretty good penny to salvage them at the junkyard. I once left my old washing machine out of my yard and like a flash it was taken. I was going to give it to my friend but OH well. At least the mexicans aren't robbing people.