On a recent winter’s day, down in the southern reaches of Staten Island ... Park, which is located just downstream, Brookfield Park is probably the nicest park built on top of a toxic waste dump ...

Mayor Eric Adams says the development of Freshkills Park on Staten Island is just beginning. "The park will be built in stages ... be developed in the city in over 100 years.

Freshkills Park in Staten ... Images The garbage dump was so expansive and prominent that it was captured in images from outer space. Anger from Staten Island residents over the landfill had ...

The first phase of a plan to transform a Staten Island dump from an eyesore into a 2,200 ... last week when the contractor in charge of building Owl Hollow Fields, a 21-acre lot that will include ...

Staten Island’s Freshkills was once the world’s largest dump. In 2001, New York City shut it down and began the process of turning it into a park ... The plan was to build housing on top ...

and Commissioner James Oddo tour Freshkills Park. (Advance/SILive.com | Priya Shahi)Priya Shahi “What drove me was clearly the people of Staten Island. They were burdened by having this dump and ...

Local landscape studio Field Operations has opened a swath of land in Staten Island's Freshkills ... an overlook and park area." The landscape design of North Park will grow over time to create ...

Freshkills Park is poised ... Ricker, a Staten Island native, recalls that when he looked out his bedroom window growing up, he couldn’t see the horizon over the mounds of trash and swarms ...

Staten Island’s Freshkills was once the world’s largest dump. In 2001, New York City shut it down and began the process of turning it into a park. A soccer field opened in 2013 and a bikeway ...