Special delivery! Mail found in garbage helps catch alleged Staten Island dumper after pol’s tip

According to Carr’s office, the individual had dumped multiple bags of garbage along Narrows Road South between Mosel Avenue and Hylan Boulevard in Grasmere. Carr flagged the issue and brought it to ...
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Mining Our Garbage Instead of Our Planet

Since riding my bike past the long-closed Pennsylvania and Fountain Avenue landfills on the Belt Parkway bike path as a kid in Brooklyn, I’ve been ...
El Cronista

New York’s massive landfill is becoming a park nearly three times the size of Central Park

Located on Staten Island, the former Fresh Kills Landfill once received enormous amounts of New York City’s household waste.
Hoodline

Boca Raton Retiree Recalls Ground Zero Search That Left Him Sick at 37

On September 11, 2001, Greco was pulled from his narcotics assignment and sent into lower Manhattan by bus and ferry, ...
Hoodline

Retired NYPD Officer Beats 9/11 Cancer as Florida Becomes New Front Line

For the retired NYPD officer whose recovery was featured by Fox 13 Tampa Bay, beating cancer places him among a growing ...