![]() ![]() With the addition of Tortilleria Mexicana Los Hermanos and Tortilleria Tenochtitlan 2000 at 952 Flushing Avenue, the Tortilla Triangle has been transformed into a corn-centered square, of sorts-maybe you’d even call it kernel-shaped. The neighborhood was soon dubbed the “Tortilla Triangle” for the three Mexican-owned tortilla factories strung along or near the avenue: Tortilleria Buena Vista at 219 Johnson Avenue Tortilleria Plaza Piaxtla, now at 915 Flushing Avenue and Tortilleria Chinantla at 975 Grand Street. But by the 1990s a new industry had arrived: tortilla production, bringing with it the centuries-old scent of toasted maize. This neighborhood, where Bushwick and East Williamsburg overlap, is still redolent of its industrial past and present, with steel manufacturing plants, trucking depots and long and low warehouses lining Flushing Avenue. The warm minerality of cooked corn stretches the block, and you can almost float on the curls of aroma into the factory, dreaming of the brown-specked tortillas that await you. Follow the flight of stairs out of the underground, and you land nearly in the entrance of Tortilleria Mexicana Los Hermanos at 271 Starr Street. Stepping out of the Jefferson stop on the L train is an exercise in olfactory entrancement, cartoon-style. ![]()
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