Fresh kills landfill for fresh kills on March 9, 2004. Now, the New York City Parks Department is using the 2,200 acres to create one of the largest parks in the city.

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.

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 ...

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 the Fresh Kills Landfill first opened in 1948, it began a massive alteration of what was once a rustic salt-marsh habitat. By the time it closed in 2001, ...

Below, Mark explains how Fresh Kills, once the site of the largest landfill in the world, is now teeming with wildlife, including migratory birds and iconic American birds of prey.

1948: Fresh Kills Landfill opens An aerial view of the landfill site from 1943. NYC Parks. The site of what became the world’s largest landfill was once mostly tidal creeks and coastal marshland.