Murder but Not So Much Mystery

The Washington Post;  August 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ...FRESH KILLS By Bill Loehfelm Putnam. 326 pp. $24.95 Bill Loehfelm...but given this set-up I expected "Fresh Kills" to be, if not a police procedural...death. There is some good writing in "Fresh Kills," but I would have liked it more...

SIDEwalks: Fresh Kills Chaplain Looks Back

Irish Voice;  September 24, 2002 ;     697 words ......that activity was taking place atop the Fresh Kills landfill, which, on the morning of September...Staten Island, with a clear view of Fresh Kills, a mountain of trash which is so huge...if you will, as the chaplain at the Fresh Kills site. Serving, back then, as the head...

BOOKS.(Life and Arts)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  August 23, 2008 ;     107 words ...FRESH KILLS Bill Loehfelm. G.P. Putnam's Sons. 326 pages. $24.95. Junior Sanders, the narrator and main character of Bill Loehfelm's first published novel, is a bitter, angry man - and with good...

Waste. not!

The Village Voice;  May 28, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Two days after 9-11, the Fresh Kills landfill reopened to take in the...making her the official artist of Fresh Kills. She'll now participate in its...out of a projected six) of her Fresh Kills project: reconnaissance. For a...

New Yorkers tired of putting up with garbage, smell Racial equity...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 29, 1998 ;     700+ words ......that, by law, must stop going to the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island by Dec. 31...oceangoing barges. The upshot is that as Fresh Kills prepares to close, large swaths of the...will stall the city's drive to close Fresh Kills and force a policy re-evaluation. They...

THE MAYOR'S CORNER: Closing of Fresh Kills landfill has lasting impact on...

Filipino Reporter;  April 5, 2001 ;     549 words ......2001 THE MAYOR'S CORNER: Closing of Fresh Kills landfill has lasting impact on Staten...New Yorkers that we would close the Fresh Kills landfill by the end of 2001. Last week...well ahead of schedule. The closing of Fresh Kills will have a lasting impact not only...

Proposal to export garbage has New Yorkers talkin' trash. (Fresh Kills...

Insight on the News;  July 29, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Fresh Kills is one of the largest -- and most hazardous...tall as the Statue of Liberty -- the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, N.Y., is the...or how to avoid building their own Fresh Kills. It is the biggest and perhaps most efficient...

'Big dig' unearths clues to garbage decay. (excavation of Fresh Kills...

Science News;  November 24, 1990 ;     474 words ......a swamp on Staten Island, N.Y., the Fresh Kills landfill -- the world's largest -- covers...other landfills (SN: 10/6/90, p.218). At Fresh Kills, they used a bucket auger to chew out...heavily decayed gray slime. Because Fresh Kills has no clay barrier to separate initially...

Learning From Landfill: Artist Mierle Ukeles finds great potential, and...

The New York Jewish Week;  October 26, 2001 ;     700+ words ......potential, and newfound sadness, in Fresh Kills. Over a few sunny weeks this past summer...across the 2,200-acre expanse of the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island. Videographers...how much has changed since Sept. 11. Fresh Kills itself, enjoying its long-awaited retirement...

Staten Island site may become national cemetery for victims

Evening Standard - London;  October 2, 2001 ;     700+ words ...FROM the top of the Fresh Kills rubbish dump it was once possible...biggest rubbish dump in the world, Fresh Kills has been turned into a gigantic...Ironically, the city only closed Fresh Kills six months ago, after years of complaints...

Staten Island site may become national cemetery for victims.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  October 2, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Byline: JAMES LANGTON FROM the top of the Fresh Kills rubbish dump it was once possible to...the biggest rubbish dump in the world, Fresh Kills has been turned into a gigantic forensic...ones. Ironically, the city only closed Fresh Kills six months ago, after years of complaints...

Remains treated like trash

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 27, 2007 ;     539 words ......that was taken from Ground Zero to the Fresh Kills garbage dump on Staten Island. But now...behind. The story of what happened at Fresh Kills in the mournful months after the 9/11...first time any official has said the Fresh Kills search for remains was not thorough...

The crisis of closing fresh kills

BioCycle;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......obvious necessity when New York City's Fresh Kills landfill closes. Minimizing the impact...its only remaining active landfill - Fresh Kills. As the most densely populated city...facilities. While the impacts of closing Fresh Kills extend far beyond its borders, there...

OTHER STATES' TRASH, INDIANA'S WORRY

Post-Tribune (IN);  May 19, 1997 ;     700+ words ......will get more out of stat trash, B1. Fresh Kills landfill is a steamy, smelly mound of...country's methane gas originates from Fresh Kills. As many as 53,000 sea gulls drop by...trash will be somebody else's problem. Fresh Kills could stay open another 25 years, but...

New York Undead: Globalization, Landscape Urbanism, and the Afterlife of...

The Journal of American Culture;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......ambitious, long-term plan to transform the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island (Figure 1...from Ground Zero was transported to the Fresh Kills Landfill, which was specially reopened...material. As one commentator has noted, Fresh Kills ... is not just the place where, for...