Garbage Disposal Plant Cornerstone Ceremony

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.

Sanitation commissioner William J. Powell presides over the cornerstone ceremony for a garbage incinerator plant in Maspeth, Queens at 58th Street and 53rd Avenue. This was the first of five incinerator built under the supervision of Mayor O'Dwyer. The cost of this first incinerator was $5 million. O'Dwyer was unable to attend, Colonel John J Bennett.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 68939
Municipal archives id: LT206

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