"Mount Corona" - the Corona Ash Dump in Queens along the Flushing River.
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“This is the valley of ashes, a fantastic farm where ashes grow like
wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the
form of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a
transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through
the powdery air.”