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Freshkills park hike

Schmul Park Wilde & Melvin Avenues, Staten Island

Photo credit: wikipedia.org Hike the beautiful scenery of the Freshkills, a 2,200 acre park, the largest in NYC. The Freshkills was once the world's largest…

Free

Trash: New York City’s Battle with Garbage

Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn

This class will trace New York City's protracted struggle to contain its solid waste burden, from the 19th century to the present.

Learn more at the Brooklyn Brainery!

$10

Freshkills Park Series: Landfill Infrastructure

Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn

The ongoing development of Freshkills Park is one of the most ambitious public works projects in the history of New York City, using state of the art ecological restoration techniques in an extraordinary setting for recreation, public art, and environmental investigation.

Learn more about the infrastructure that makes the park possible from Laura Truettner, Manager for Park Development.

$8