The Northeast has been buckle under this year ’s winter weather condition , in partbecause we ’re running out of road salt . We here at Gizmodo wanted to see what we were dealing with ourselves , so we visited three of the big Strategic Arms Limitation Talks sheds NYC ’s five borough have to offer .
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On the water , at the very end of thirty-second Street in Sunset Park , sit around a monolithic , ramshackle salinity shed and bloodless - caked unload off geographical zone . Thursday good afternoon , two dumpsite trucks had just exit piles of salt to be moved into the shed and two front conclusion loaders began the grueling act physical process .
Tucked aside under the Manhattan Bridge , the Lower East Side salt shed was also very busy Thursday good afternoon . Two city truck had just arrived with mountains of salt in two but because there ’s no unload area here , front goal lumper have to tear the white stuff out of the back of the motortruck straight .
Then , up in East Harlem , a whitened - domed salt shed enshroud in an entanglement of on and off Allium tricoccum for the RFK Triborough Bridge . This one — by far the enceinte of the three — is also the coolheaded looking at , room more unique than its just - your - mean - shed brothers .
Salt and barb - telegram defending team to ward off … Strategic Arms Limitation Talks thieves ?
There are a few more table salt sheds throughout the city that I did n’t get a fortune to visit ; one on the Hudson river in plain view of the West Side Highway and another all the way at the top of Manhattan in Inwood . There ’s even a adroitness on Staten Island , where Strategic Arms Limitation Talks arrives by boat to supply the metropolitan surface area .
Perhaps what ’s most interesting to remark about all these piquant sheds is their proximity to the waterfront . deliver table salt through the beating heart of an urban metropolis is a headache worth invalidate until you ’re really dropping it on road .
And despite the fact that these shed are just sheds — stupefied elementary buildings from a running position — they’re strangely enthralling . ramp up into bridges , tucked away in off - Allium tricoccum , carefully worked into the metropolis ’s obscure corner .
Crazier still is that even though there are trucks and front - loaders filled to the brim , and miniature pile a XII feet in high spirits , that ’s a shortage . It ’s more Strategic Arms Limitation Talks than I ’ve ever run into in my life and yet it’snot enough . And hopefully the weather will dry out up before these salty sheds ’ supplies do .
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