Today's prices in Brooklyn, NY

Olddude- Nice to see your Cu is still holding around $2, my place up here is down to $1.40-1.70 a pound.



R. Dusk- I'm surprised your prices are down so much. I always thought the bigger East Coast/ industrial Midwest cities had better prices but many of yours are comparable to what we get here in the more isolated middle of the country. Maybe that yard has to deal with the hassle of getting scrap out of NYC itself???

P.S. The reason I say the above is that very few RR lines actually crossed the various water bodies into NYC itself. I remember going on a geography field trip back in 2001 where one of the stops was Liberty Park on the NJ side of the Hudson. Back in the industrial heyday, it was the center of where numerous RR lines ended (something like a couple miles solid of RR terminals and unloading facilities there). Only a single line or two actually crossed the river and went into Manhattan. Now, obviously most of the RRs are either defunct or have been swallowed up by the few remaining Class I RRs that have loading facilities elsewhere. Some of the areas within Liberty Park were too contaminated to be really cleaned up so a few places are off limits but much of the old RR yard was made into this nice park. It has a great view of lower Manhattan. I got nice pictures of the World Trade Towers when I was there at the end of Feb. 2001. If we only knew...