Why a Mount Sinai researcher turned her attention to cancer on Staten Island

Dr. Maaike van Gerwen was researching cancer rates among those involved in the 9/11 terror attacks before setting her sights ...
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The certified closure of Staten Island’s Fresh Kills landfill will become 21 acres of green space

It was once the largest landfill in the world, a behemoth dumping ground that opened in Staten Island’s swamps after World War II. Barges brought bilious heaps of trash to the Fresh Kills landfill for ...

For Staten Islanders Touched by Cancer, Questions Continue to Outnumber Answers

Staten Islanders have long pleaded for answers about why cancer rates are higher than in New York City. One of the most ...
Staten Island Advance

Composting stench a foul reminder of Staten Island’s dark landfill history | Opinion

We thought we were done with rancid stenches coming from the old Fresh Kills landfill property. But I guess not. A composting facility located on the grounds of the old dump has been stinking up the ...

New York capped what was once one of the world’s largest garbage dumps; its 2,200 acres are becoming grasslands and wetlands that support rare nesting birds

For more than half a century, New York City’s garbage ended up at Fresh Kills on Staten Island, a landfill so vast that it ...
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Fresh kills : artists respond to the closure of the Staten Island landfill / [curator, Olivia Georgia, editors, Kari Conte ... [et al.]]

Issued in corrugated cardboard box with Velcro closures. "The artists: Michael Arguelles ... [et al.]"--Box. Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) ...