Protecting community gardens
May 01, 2000
At an Earth Day event on the steps of City Hall last week, Council members Ken Fisher and Adolfo Carrion announced new legislation to protect community gardens. City Council members
In The News: Pier Pressure
May 01, 2000
 In recent weeks, while the weather still spoke more of winter than spring, the Hudson River Park Trust severed a number of Hudson River piers. With little fanfare, HRPT contractors
Recycling Before Exporting: Turning Garbage into Dollars
Apr 10, 2000
Amidst all of the turmoil accompanying the City's long overdue closure of its Fresh Kills Landfill, one bit of good news has been overshadowed: in late 1999, the City's diversion Last Updated (Friday, March 15, 2013 03:25 PM)
Transfer Station Siting and Community Quality of Life: The Red Hook Story
Apr 10, 2000
In less than two years, Staten Island's Fresh Kills landfill, the last in New York City, will close. Creating an alternative system that will manage the post-Fresh Kills disposal of Last Updated (Friday, March 15, 2013 03:27 PM)
Solid Waste
Apr 10, 2000
THE LOWDOWN: Until the mid-1980s, New York City disposed of virtually all of its garbage locally: burying it in landfills or burning it in incinerators. Since then, with time running out Last Updated (Friday, March 15, 2013 03:30 PM)
In The News: Finally! The Brooklyn Bridge Park plan
Apr 01, 2000
The draft master plan to remake the downtown Brooklyn waterfront into a park will be unveiled for public comment April 30 and May 1. The plan was created through
In The News: Waterfront Primer
Apr 01, 2000
 The City's waterways are a maritime crossroads for a varied group of users and uses. These can generally be divided into six categories: organizational, economic and commercial, historic, environmental,
In The News: Field of Dreams in Staten Island?
Mar 01, 2000
A Staten Island conservation group, Protectors of Pine Oak Woods, is fighting a City plan to create a complex of recreational fields in Bloomingdale Park. Staten Island Borough
Private Funding of Parks
Feb 07, 2000
Imagine yourself come spring, traipsing through Central Park. With a private nonprofit group raising millions each year to finance upkeep and restoration, the Park has never looked better. But will Last Updated (Friday, March 15, 2013 03:09 PM)
In The News:
Feb 01, 2000
New York State recently acquired a spectacular site on Staten Island's south shore, protecting 194 acres of rolling plains sweeping up to cliffs along Raritan Bay. The land was |