Sentences with phrase «largest city dump»

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

Not exact matches

A few years back I heard of a guy who was trying to rent an airplane so he could dump millions of «Gospel tracts» over a certain large city.

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.

That suggests to me that something is happening here that's way bigger than the largely made - up tiff between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) about whether Houston should have been evacuated before Harvey dumped trillions of gallons of rain on the nation's fourth - largest city.

A welder tries to fulfill his dream of restoring the family farmhouse, which is situated next to the city dump, and settling into it with his large family.

As he sees it, urban Catholic - school closures dump students back into a system that is ill - prepared to educate them, a system that in many large U.S. cities awards diplomas to only half its high school students.

For newcomers, you're dumped into areas like a desert wasteland or walled off city streets and tasked with taking out enemies, larger monsters and rescuing citizens.

These days New York's waste from those ubiquitous white garbage collection trucks is dumped onto the floor of waste transfer stations that are typically located in poor neighborhoods, and then loaded onto large trucks for shipment out of New York City.