Interesting photos bring back memories of my youth. I grew up in this neighborhood in the 1960's through the 1980's using this area as my playground while it was still being destroyed by active landfills and industrial pollution. I roamed these "wild" areas before it was developed into a celebrated parkland.
Interesting juxtaposition of the natural and the industrial dimensions of a landscape whose ecological significance has come to be appreciated only after it was largely destroyed.