‘After About 10 Minutes, a Car Pulled Up to the Traffic Light’
SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. It’s a true Robert Moses special, hemmed in on one side by the Cobble Hill trench, and on the other by Columbia Street’s on-ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.The court is loud, even on an otherwise quiet Sunday. Before a nearby concrete-recycling plant closed last year, the dirt it spewed would sometimes cover the ground with a thin layer of dust that rose with each dribble.On this day, we were alone, except for a father pushing a baby in a bear suit on a swing set.
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- ▪Before a nearby concrete-recycling plant closed last year, the dirt it spewed would sometimes cover the ground with a thin layer of dust that rose with each dribble.On this day, we were alone, except for a father pushing a baby in a bear su
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