Posted Nov 19, 2012, 7:18 PM
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Location: Borough of Jersey
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Cleanup of the Rockaways, Queens....
Images from Nathan Kensinger
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/1..._rockaways.php
Mattresses, bicycles, clothing and other personal belongings are piled into enormous rows of destroyed property.
Workers in the collection zone wear full protective gear, including respirators.
Using rakes and hoes, they sift dangerous chemicals out from the debris.
The piles are organized by their materials - wood, sand, homes.
Seagulls circle the rubble, picking through CDs and photographs.
Heavy machinery chips away at the growing collection of materials.
A constant stream of trucks is loaded and driven to Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island.
From Fresh Kills, the truckloads of debris will be sent to landfills outside of the city.
The mountain of destroyed homes stretches out to the horizon.
A mix of sand and household items collected from the streets of the Rockaways is piled up 30 feet high.
From the top of the sand pile you can see past the destruction, to the skyline of Manhattan.
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