Picture taken from the top of a mound at the former Fresh Kills landfill Tuesday, May 24, 2022 shows part of the area's waterway and Staten Island's industrial West Shore.

After 9/11, Staten Island’s defunct Fresh Kills landfill became a forensic site for Ground Zero debris. Nineteen years later, the city is transforming it into a park. Residents worry it’s ...

The Fresh Kills landfill is now more commonly known as Freshkills Park. Staten Island “is the Borough of Parks, but this park is actually an icon of environmental restoration,” said Hirsh.

Fresh Kills is the major landfill for the city, handling about 17,000 tons of trash a day, most of it municipal waste from the five boroughs of New York City.

A portion of the former Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island has been turned into parkland and the soil will be replenished by composted human feces flushed from a solar-powered restroom.. Mayor ...

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 lan… ...

The closing of the Fresh Kills landfill yesterday was a sweet moment for Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari - even if it came 50 years late. In 1948, New York City opened the landfill on ...

When Rudy Giuliani signed an agreement to close Fresh Kills landfill by 2001, it was more of a thank-you to Staten Island for the election than a concrete sanitation-disposal plan.

The last scow carrying garbage to Fresh Kills departed on March 22, 2001. Ten years later, trees arrived at the now-closed landfill aboard the same sort of ship.

After 9/11, Staten Island’s defunct Fresh Kills landfill became a forensic site for Ground Zero debris. Nineteen years later, the city is transforming it into a park. Residents worry it’s ...