The old Flushing Airport lies vacant, returned, 30 years after its closure, to the wetlands that sprawled across this part of Queens a century ago. Waterfowl patrol the site now, and whatever other creatures can handle the pollution from decades of small aviation and maintenance, and decades more of illegal dumping. At the southern end, Mill Creek – which once flowed unimpeded to Flushing Bay through the floodplain separating the villages of Flushing and College Point – emerges from the overgrown vegetation, sludgy and glistening green.
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