NEW YORK TRIP (Brooklyn)

To Brooklyn near the waterfront and East river

This area is now called DUMBO - Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass

If we go along Adams Street towards the waterfront and follow these tracks (photo 2008)

we come to an entrance

Chambers Paper Fibres occupy the whole of this building (recent photos)

Chambers Paper Fibres are reputable paper recyclers and were established in 1896.  Since the early 1900s the mob has been involved with commercial garbage hauling and as recently as 1992,  Rick Cowan, an undercover detective with the New York City Police Department, witnessed the fire-bombing of one of Chambers’ truckers.  This led to his infiltration of the mafia stronghold on commercial hauling and recycling, under the assumed identity of Danny Benedetto, the “long-lost cousin” of Sal Benedetto, the fourth generation owner of Chambers.

The account of the mob’s involvement in waste management and paper recycling can be learned in detail in the book Takedown, written by Rick Cowan, the undercover detective who broke the cartel.

back to the movie

photos (2008)

this entrance looks a bit odd, possibly made just for the movie

probably not filmed here

I couldn't see any evidence of a cellar or a window on a lower level that could give this view of Brooklyn bridge.

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