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Getting Inside the Trash Transfer Station, Before It's Gone
 It's not exactly a palace, but it would have killed me had the old trash transfer station/DPW site at 900 New Jersey Ave., SE, been razed without my ever having gotten inside the fences with my camera. Since the demolition countdown clock is now ticking (though no one wants to commit to an actual *when*, other than "near-term"), I finally got to traipse around the 1920s-era building on Tuesday. I took far more photos than the building probably warrants, but the historical record must be served. Out of the torrent of images, I bring you two galleries, one of shots from inside the building's two levels (including into quite a few spots that were pitch black until my flash went off. {shiver}), and one from the walk around the exterior, since I had never gotten fence-free access to it before. I even got to peek down into the first of the five 60-foot shafts being dug along New Jersey Avenue and then beneath the eventual I Street footprint in order to move a very big and very deep pipe. That work has to be completed before construction can begin on the Park Chelsea apartment building just to the north of the trash transfer station. As for the station's lot once razing is complete, it could be a temporary parking lot until the eventual construction of a mixed-income apartment building that's part of the Capper-Carrollsburg redevelopment. All of this presuming that no one decides to lay in front of the bulldozers to prevent the building from being torn down.
MJM says: (6/30/12 3:50 PM)
Were you able to see anything of where they used to shred the garbage and dump it into the sewer system? Found a mention of that in an article on the plant but that was a long time ago so it could have been covered up.
JD says: (6/30/12 4:14 PM)
I didn't, but I did find out that the building is actually built on pylons, which I might assume was to give it a bit of a lift above the likely questionable ground on the site.
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