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Freshkills Park is a public park being built atop a former landfill on Staten Island. At about 2,200 acres (8.9 km 2 ), it will be the largest park developed in New York City since the 19th century.
Worker combing through debris from the World Trade Center at the Fresh Kills landfill; Manhattan is visible in the distance. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Fresh Kills was temporarily reopened as a sorting ground for roughly a third of the rubble from Ground Zero. More than 1,600 personal effects were retrieved during this time.
May 6-May 7, 2000 - After 27 years of holding the Westheimer Street Festival in Montrose, the festival was held in Eleanor Tinsley Park west of Downtown Houston. Promoters of the festival were denied a street closure permit back in January 2000 under a revised festival ordinance in which public hearings are held. Attendance figures declined.
The 2,200-acre (890-hectare) Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island was once the largest landfill site in the world. For five decades after its opening in 1948, it was the principal landfill for ...
Denny's, home of the Grand Slam® pancake meal and other breakfast favorites, plans to shutter 150 of its restaurants in the coming months. The company announced the closures Tuesday during an ...
Fresh Kills (from the Middle Dutch word kille, meaning "riverbed" or "water channel") is a stream and freshwater estuary in the western portion of the borough of Staten Island in New York City, United States. It is the site of the Fresh Kills Landfill, formerly New York City's principal landfill.
Denny's, home of the Grand Slam® pancake meal and other breakfast favorites, plans to shutter 150 of its restaurants in the coming months. The company announced the closures Tuesday during an ...
His designs of note include Fresh Kills Park on Staten Island and the High Line in Manhattan, and Domino Park in Brooklyn, all in New York City. Corner is a professionally registered landscape architect and the principal of James Corner Field Operations, a landscape architecture and urban design practice based in New York City.