by Nathan Frank 
Some walked a mile through Bushwick’s industrial underbelly before crossing the Brooklyn-Queens border into Maspeth. Others exited outer borough taxis whose drivers looked hopelessly lost. Both groups converged at a gated three acre gravel lot tended by impeccably suited security guards. Their common destination: A 50,000 square foot factory made famous for building door frames in the 1950s. Within the hour nearly 1000 of them would fill this colossus of brick, steel and…
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