This New York City park is named for its dominant feature: massive storage silos and hoppers that were once part of a batch-mix concrete plant that operated from the late-1940s until 1987. At that time, Transit-Mix Concrete Corporation became insolvent, after the owner was indicted on racketeering charges. Community, social justice, and environmental groups urged the city to acquire the site, and the property was put under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks and Recreation in 2000. The environmental clean-up, design, and construction of the park took around nine…
