The interior is being lackadaisically cleaned out, but in the meantime is a playground for amateur urban archaeologists (one died this week, falling into an old
coal chute; that's how good the security is) and artistic photographers.
Just a few years ago, six coal export terminals totaling nearly 150 million tons of coal were threatening to turn our region into a dirty
coal chute to Asia.
Goldman's first office was a block from Wall Street, in a basement, by
a coal chute.»
My greenhouse is an old
coal chute to the basement (unknown to those who don't have cold winters) with translucent panels on the roof.