"'About half-way between West Egg and New York
the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a
quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of
land,' wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald in his 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. 'This is the valley of ashes.' In September 1999, in the exact place Fitzgerald describes, Serena
Williams won her initial U.S. Open Final, becoming the first Black
woman to win a Grand Slam tournament since Althea Gibson, in 1956. And
in 2012, it became the spot where, six decades after the team was
founded, Johan Santana would finally throw the first no-hitter in Mets
history. ..."
Come to Willets Point for whatever ails your auto.
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