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Fresh Kills

A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City
  • Martin V. Melosi
2020
Columbia University Press

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A pile of trash at a landfill behind a member of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Book Review

The History of New York, Told Through Its Trash

In 1948, the landfill at Fresh Kills was marketed to Staten Island as a stopgap measure. No one guessed that it would remain open for more than half a century.
by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein via The New Yorker on April 24, 2021
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