Staten Island’s Freshkills Park, once the world’s largest landfill, has been remarkably transformed into one of New York City’s largest wildland areas. With Freshkills Park Administrator Mark Murphy.
For decades this was the world’s largest landfill, where 150 million tons of garbage was dumped along the banks of the Fresh Kills estuary in New York City’s Staten Island. But today these 200-foot tall mounds of trash have been transformed into a wildland recreation area nearly three times the size of Central Park. To see it first hand, my friends at Open House New York organized a sunset group walk with Mark Murphy, President of this impressive project, and Field Educator Jen Gallo.
Discover the innovative landfill waste management techniques that led to this environmental sustainability success story on Staten Island, New York. Witness the ongoing ecological restoration efforts that are bringing new life to this urban green space.
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I really like Denver’s version of this, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Arsenal_National_Wildlife_Refuge
It was a military weapons of mass destruction complex, way too polluted to develop for human use. They remediated the site over decades and now it hosts 330+ species of wildlife with a million annual visitors. It’s involved in the reintroduction of bison and is starting to form more partnerships with regional tribal nations. Central Park is 843 acres, Rocky Mountain Arsenal is 15,988 acres. When we can make multifunctional biocentric greenspace out of industrial sites, we’re one step closer to garden cities.
