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.

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.

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.

The 2,200-acre Fresh Kills was the last city garbage disposal site to close after opening in 1948. The landfill spanned both sides of the West Shore Expressway and the putrid smell stretched for ...

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, ...

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… ...

Bruce Barton, of Stroudsburg, led an intensive search and recovery effort at Fresh Kills Landfill in the weeks following the Sept. 11 attacks.

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.

A visit to Fresh Kills Landfill with the NYC Parks Department was one of Untapped Cities’ first articles, ever, and we are excited to have been following the progress of this park since then ...