The Iron Triangle Willets Point and the Remaking of New York (2017)

Targeted for several failed redevelopment plans dating back to the days of Robert Moses Willets Point a gritty area in New York City known as the Iron Triangle is the home of hundreds of immigrantrun auto repair shops that thrive despite a lack of municipal infrastructure support During the last year of the Bloomberg Administration NYCs government advanced plans for a dynamic highend entertainment district that would completely wipe out this historic industrial core The year is 2013 and the workers of Willets Point are racing against the clock to forestall their impending eviction Their story launches an investigation into New York Citys history as the front line of deindustrialization urban renewal and gentrification