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Willets Point Automotive Businesses

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Willets Point, in Queens, New York, is the location of approximately 260 businesses, including large companies specializing in food production and distribution; ironworks; infrastructure products; recycling; and management of large-scale engineering projects.

This video features only the automotive businesses of Willets Point – the owners, workers and their customers.

The City of New York is proposing a massive redevelopment project in Willets Point that would displace all of the businesses and people depicted.

This video is in rough-cut form. Editing, images, music and credits are not complete. LoScalzo Media Design LLC is the creator and exclusive copyright holder. Copyright 2008; all rights reserved. Location production partners: Kaup Communications and Lynne Lipton.

Assembled from material gathered for the forthcoming documentary, "Among the Ash Heaps and Billionaires: Willets Point Chronicle."
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  • ladymor
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      ladymor  

    • God bless all the hard working people in Willets Point…We don’t need all these now. We need to help our economy, and this is no they right way to help.
      The city want money ...and they going to take that from the hard working Americans? Wow...we are in an election year. Maybe we need to vote for the right people, some one that help and think about the hard working people.
      Is America the land of the free?
      Taking all from hard working people.
      Shame ...they want to redevelop land without giving landowners the option of expanding the profitable business that has thrived despite the fact that they been operating without basic services.
      Owners have pleaded with the city for so many years. The city intentionally created all these in Willets Point so they can use eminent domain to take private land away. It's disgusting.
      Thousands of jobs will be lost -- hardworking Americans...please stop this, watch this video. We need to do something.
      Today for the hard working people in Willets Point, tomorrow perhaps for me.
      United we stand?
      Where is the American dream? Where is the land of opportunity??? America is only for the rich people that abuse of the hard working Americans?
      We are in a big crisis, taking all these jobs are going to help us? Maybe they think that we don’t need to work here in the USA because we can send all the work to overseas and they do our job there for less?

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