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An 1865 map of Lower Manhattan below 14th Street showing land reclamation along the shoreline. [1] The expansion of the land area of Lower Manhattan in New York City by land reclamation has, over time, greatly altered Manhattan Island's shorelines on the Hudson and East rivers as well as those of the Upper New York Bay. The extension of the ...
At the height of its use, Staten Island's Fresh Kills landfill was the largest dump in the world, sprawling across 2,200 acres. Fresh Kills first opened in 1948 [29] as a temporary landfill and closed in 2001. [26] Starting in the late 20th century, NYC is making an effort to turn old landfill sites into parks.
Superfund sites in New York are designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). CERCLA, a federal law passed in 1980, authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Manhattan 4 – 650 West 57th Street, New York, NY – serves Clinton and Chelsea; Manhattan 5 – 353 Spring Street, New York, NY – serves Midtown; Manhattan 6 – South Street, Pier 36 (interim location), New York, NY – serves Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village, Tudor City, Turtle Bay, Murray Hill, Gramercy Park, Kips Bay, Sutton Place
The pond occupied approximately 48 acres (190,000 m 2) and was as deep as 60 feet (18 m). [1] Fed by an underground spring, it was located in a valley, with Bayard Mount (at 110 feet or 34 metres the tallest hill in lower Manhattan) to the northeast and Kalck Hoek (Dutch for Chalk Point, named for the numerous oyster shell middens left by the indigenous Native American inhabitants) to the west.
Gansevoort Peninsula, the first public beach in Manhattan, is open on an old landfill site along the Hudson River. It's no California beach, or even a Hamptons beach, but something uniquely New ...
The landfill opened in 1948 as a temporary landfill, but by 1955 it had become the largest landfill in the world, [2] and it remained so until its closure in 2001. At the peak of its operation, in 1986, Fresh Kills received 29,000 short tons (26,000 t) of residential waste per day, playing a key part in the New York City waste management system ...
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