page_title: Spring Creek, Brooklyn
section_title: Industry and commerce
hierarchical_section_title: Spring Creek, Brooklyn / Industry and commerce
caption_attribution_description: English: The Spring Creek Bus Depot in Spring Creek, Brooklyn, currently operated by the MTA Bus Company. It was formerly the depot for the Command Bus Company.
context_page_description: Spring Creek, previously called Spring Creek Basin, is a neighborhood within the East New York section of Brooklyn in New York City. It roughly comprises the southern portions of East New York between Flatlands Avenue to the north, and Jamaica Bay and the Gateway National Recreation Area to the south, with the Brooklyn neighborhood of Canarsie to the west and the Queens neighborhood of Howard Beach to the east. It is named after Spring Creek, one of several creeks that formerly ran through the area and drained into Jamaica Bay.
  For most of its history, the neighborhood of Spring Creek was considered the place where "the city came to an end", consisting of undeveloped marshland used as illegal dumping grounds, and hosting several large landfills and an incinerator during the 20th century. Much of the area was designated as the Fresh Creek Urban Renewal Area in 1967. The area has since seen several major development and restoration projects, including the Starrett City apartment complex, the Gateway Center shopping complex, several affordable housing communities, and Spring Creek Park.
context_section_description: Several industrial and commercial structures are located in the northeastern portion of the area east of Fountain Avenue and south of Linden Boulevard, the former Plunders Neck area. At 803 Forbell Street in this part of the neighborhood, the South Shore Incinerator, also known as the Forbell Street Incinerator, was active from 1954 to the 1980s. Other structures in this area include:
  Spring Creek Auxiliary Water Pollution Control Plant (Spring Creek AWPCP), operated by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP).
  Spring Creek Yard Waste Composting Facility, operated by the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) at the former incinerator site. The incinerator facility is now used as a garage for cleaning and derelict vehicle storage. Two other DSNY facilities are located west of Fountain Avenue, at Milford Street and at Georgia Avenue. The Georgia Avenue location is also a former incinerator plant, having operated from about 1920 through at least the mid-1930s.
  Spring Creek Depot, operated by the MTA Bus Company.
  United States Postal Service Brooklyn Processing and Distribution Center, also known as the Brooklyn P&DC, the Brooklyn General Mail Facility, or simply the Postal Facility, at 1050 Forbell Street. Constructed in 1991, it occupies a large area between the bus depot and DSNY facility.
  Other structures in the rest of Spring Creek include:
  26th Ward Water Pollution Control Plant, also operated by the NYCDEP, in Starrett City on the shore of Hendrix Creek. It was opened in the 1950s.
  Flatlands Fairfield Industrial Park, north of Flatlands Avenue.
caption: Looking at the Spring Creek Depot from Flatlands Avenue
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