Sentences with phrase «fresh kill»

Issues of design activism and the role of media in spatial experience are explored in critical essays by Jennifer Gabrys on Fresh Kills Landfill in New York, Michael Rakowitz on the Hungarian - based team Big Hope, and in Claudine Isé's Vanishing Point, an exhibition questioning the aesthetics of urban non-spaces.

Lawmakers have previously called on the city to study potential health impacts of Fresh Kills dump on residents after statistics showed the borough had higher rates of cancer and several birth defects than the rest of the city.

On Friday Joe Lhota and Assembly Member Joe Borelli held a press conference calling on the City to allow Staten Island drivers to use roads inside the now - closed Fresh Kills landfill.

And this is surprising... how??? nEvery single thing they've done smacks of political and self - willed arrogance.nThe entire plans are as hideous as their mentality.nNo new Twin Towers, and people, they say, are suffering post traumatic stress now more than ever.nDead remains deliberately left in Fresh Kills landfill.nMore remains they intend to put right at the WTC site: when the WTC shouldn't be a site for the dead in the FIRST PLACE.

The free «Fresh Kills Park Discovery Day» opens up the future North Park and miles of additional interior trails along East Park for walking, bicycling, jogging, kayaking and exploring.

You can also get together with other authors in your genre and each contribute a story for an anthology, as did Kill Zone authors in 2010, with Fresh Kills, Tales from The Kill Zone.

The city last studied adverse health issues for Staten Island residents near Fresh Kills in 1997, but its sample size was small and it was before 9/11, Borelli said.

Erin Crotty, acting commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation said, «The closure of Fresh Kills not only marks the culmination of years of effort to bring the state into the age of modern solid waste management practices, but presents a tremendous opportunity to turn this blighted landscape into an environmental success story.»

However, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State confirmed fresh killings in Guma and Logo where two persons were killed in each local government.

I wish I had the cojones to eat raw fresh kills.

before dashing off to the next fresh kill.

As Joe points out, we are published writers and see Fresh Kills as a way to expose new readers to our material.

In the catalog interview with Alison Gingeras, titled Fresh Kills, Martinez says, «the drawings and practice of drawing has always been a constant thing and existed on its own laurels.

The once notorious Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island is being developed into an urban park.

I encourage you to read Michael Kimmelman «s post on the ArtsBeat blog about how the former Fresh Kills Landfill helped limit flood damage in Staten Island when the remains of Hurricane Sandy struck the region.

Life after Fresh Kills: Moving beyond New York City's current waste management plan.

This, he said, includes rising tolls, the allocation of Hurricane Sandy relief money and the placement of trash facilities, like the closed Fresh Kills Landfill and the planned southwest Brooklyn incinerator.

New York Governor George Pataki, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari celebrated the end of more than 50 years of waste disposal at Fresh Kills landfill nine months ahead of schedule, as a barge carrying the final shipment of waste to the landfill was emptied.

«We look forward to working with the city on a plan for the future of Fresh Kills that will benefit Staten Island residents by helping to restore the ecology and natural resources of this area,» Crotty said.

Major projects include New York City's acclaimed High Line; Santa Monica's Tongva Park and Ken Gensler Square; Staten Island's Fresh Kills Park; Philadelphia's Race Street Pier; London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park; Chicago's Navy Pier; Seattle's Central Waterfront; and Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui Waterfront.

(Staten Island's scraps are taken directly to a composting site in Fresh Kills.)

And the borough is home to the Fresh Kills landfill, the world's largest garbage dump, which grows in size with daily bargeloads of refuse collected from the four other boroughs.

Everytime Morghin gets out her DS the two three years are like buzzards on a fresh kill.

She currently has a regular DS however every time she takes it out to play with it her 3 yr twin brother and sister come out live vulters on a fresh kill.

Lhota then recalled his tenure as deputy mayor for operations under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, saying that he oversaw the closing of the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island as well as a marine transfer station previously located at the East 91st Street site.

Our relationship with that City Hall was so laden with flashpoints - jails, homeless shelters, the Fresh Kills landfill, you name it - that Staten Islanders voted to secede from the city.

Sure, Fossella helped close the Fresh Kills landfill, and yeah, he tried to help sick 9/11 rescue workers.

At peak of operation in the 1980s, Fresh Kills Landfill took in as much as 29,000 tons of trash per day.

Mr. Donovan was Mr. Molinari's point man when the borough president was negotiating the closure of the city's garbage dump, known as the Fresh Kills Land Fill, an effort that would make Rudolph Giuliani, the Republican mayor, a folk hero of sorts in the borough.

Then there is another of the district's unquantifiable qualities: Staten Island's ingrained feeling of aggrievement, which grows out of its situation as an isolated suburban enclave tethered to America's largest metropolis, and out of the traumatic memory of the Fresh Kills landfill, where the city dumped other boroughs» trash for half a century.

Fresh Kills is the last of the landfills in New York City and the last unlined municipal solid waste landfill in New York State.

Fresh Kills was closed in 2001 and is presently being developed as an eco-park.

Fresh Kills on Staten Island, one of New York's five boroughs, accepted its last barge load of trash this morning.

As part of a 1996 agreement to stop the importation of trash to the Fresh Kills landfill and close the facility by December 31, 2001, Governor Pataki and Mayor Giuliani appointed a 12 - member joint task force to develop a plan for closing Fresh Kills and recommend alternatives for waste disposal.

«The closure of the Fresh Kills Landfill is, by far, the highlight of my 27 year political career,» Molinari said.

«I call on the Federal Government to set up a committee to investigate the fresh killing of innocent persons, including children, women, men and the aged in a primary school where they were taking refuge.»

Lhota is certainly knowledgable on the topic, having been involved in the Fresh Kills closing as Giuliani's deputy mayor for operations.

The SWMP grew out of the Giuliani - era closing of the Fresh Kills landfill, previously the destination for the City's garbage, as the City has tried to develop a long term plan for waste transfer.

Referring to the decades that the city dumped its trash in the island's Fresh Kills landfill, he wrote, «We refuse to be the solution for another borough's problems.»

This practice involved scaring off a predator from a fresh kill by making loud noises, then stepping in to claim the carcass.

12 Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island in New York, which closed in 2001, is the world's largest city dump.

Of all the things to be leaking methane on Staten Island in New York City — corroded gas pipes, sewers, the Fresh Kills dump — who would have suspected the mail truck?

A fresh kill means the lions will likely return in the evening.

When leopards or hyenas bring an animal down, the hunters «can spot these fresh kills at a distance from the vultures circling above,» Bramble says.

On Staten Island, Fresh Kills's four giant mounds of trash would be flattened, their vast accumulation of stubborn PVC plastic and glass ground to powder.