Although the opening of Freshkills Park seems like a very long ways from now, we were given a taste of what’s to come last year, when the first park section broke ground in Staten Island. When ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article Freshkills Park was open on Sunday for the Parks department’s annual “Sneak Peak” The Department of Parks & Recreation opened up 300 acres of the ...

The New York City Civic Corps program is looking to hire early-career professionals to help at what will become one of the ...

Since 1947, it has been one of New York’s most notorious locations: the Freshkills landfill, in Staten Island, the city’s least populated, least renowned borough. To many, it became a sort of running ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The opening of Freshkills Park is a major milestone for NYC Parks," says NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue, calling it a ...

James Corner Field Operations’ plans for Freshkills Park in Staten Island inched closer to fruition this week after New York City authorities awarded a $23 million contract to Lomma Construction ...

A kayak tour at Fresh Kills Park on Discover Day several years ago.. (Staten Island Advance/Bill Lyons) Freshkills Park, a public park project built atop the Fresh Kills Landfill, is transforming what ...

This story is part of a monthlong series of guests posts by AIA New York that feature Archtober Building of the Day tours. See the full 2017 schedule here. An NYC Parks minibus picked us up from the ...

More than 60% of all grassland habitats in North America have been lost, according to the 2019 North American Grassland and Birds Report by the National Audubon Society. Much of it is due to ...

Freshkills Park, the massive restoration project that’s transforming what used to be the world’s largest landfill into public green space, is one step closer to receiving its long awaited solar and ...