Tags: Freshkills Park

On-air on NY1 right now: an interview and tour with Freshkills Park Administrator Eloise Hirsh about two sections of the park that will be open within the next year-and-a-half: the Owl Hollow Soccer Fields and Schmul Park.  You can watch the clip online or on TV, airing all day on NY1.

We’re happy to begin our third year of public bus tours through the Freshkills Park site. Tours run from April through the middle of November on alternating Saturdays at 10 a.m and 1 p.m, and we’d love for you to come out on a tour. 

With the 8th anniversary of the closure of Fresh Kills Landfill coming up, the Staten Island Advance’s blog, The Staten Island Notebook, published this story reviewing the steps preceding the landfill’s closure.  The story singles out one man, former Fresh Kills crane operator John Leverock, as a possible progenitor of the idea to close Fresh Kills and to containerize and export the city’s waste, as the current Solid Waste Management Plan prescribes. 

Meirle Laderman Ukeles is a Percent For Art Artist whose work will be integrated in the development of Freshkills Park. She has been the Artist-in-Residence at the NYC Department of Sanitation since 1977 and, following the ideals of her 1969 Manifesto for Maintenance Art, has executed numerous maintenance and sanitation-related artistic projects over the last 30 years. 

Freshkills Park and landscape architect James Corner, principal of Field Operations, have been featured in a huge story in the current issue of New York Magazine. We’re happy to get this kind of exposure, though the story does seem to incorrectly suggest that when you visit the site you see a heap of trash.

On a recent sunny Friday, we took Williamsburg-based post-punk band Freshkills out on a tour of their namesake site.  Writer Jens Carstensen is friend of the band and came out on the tour with us. His account of our bleary-eyed morning is a fun read.