Staten Island

Landfill to Landscape competition, it is necessary to explore how Fresh Kills became known worldwide as the World’s Largest Landfill in the first place. For millennia, Fresh Kills was as salt marsh bordered by the Arthur Kill, the waterway separating Staten Island from New Jersey. Though the

Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Now it is so hard to believe that once Staten Island was a dump, which closed in 2001. Now, this inhabited locality is developing very fast. Life there is quiet and nice, compared to other districts of New York, seems like less populated and more like a suburb. Staten Island may be the most dangerous place to live on the East Coast of the United States. That is the conclusion that many meteorologists, geologists and inhabitants of the borough

The Pigman written by Paul Zindel is based on two teenagers lives, it shows both of their perspectives throughout the book. The genre of this book is young adult fiction, which is targeted for teenagers. The Pigman was published in 1968, when Paul was only 32 years old. The book went on to win a total of eight awards, being Paul's second book to win any awards. There are many characters mentioned throughout the book, but the most important ones are John Conlan, Lorraine Jensen and Angelo Pignati

Although Staten Island is small, the North Shore is part of a huge project coming up. Next to the Saint George Terminal, Richard Marin is looking to create the Empire Outlets, and the New York Wheel, a 630 foot tall Ferris wheel. When Marin started discussing the development project, he already had nearly 200 million dollars set, however, still needed to work out how he was going to get the other 300 million dollars (Hughes, 2015). An article in the New York Post, written by Associated Press (2014)

I am a native Staten Islander. Both my parents and set of grandparents were born on Staten Island as well, so it 's no surprise I was too. Much of my family lives on Staten Island and my whole childhood memories and reflections are all based off being Staten Island. I do appreciate the childhood memories I have as well as some of the people I have met, but I have mixed feelings overall about where I am from and most days I do not like it. I definitely agree it has both it 's pro 's and con 's at

Fresh Kills Landfill, the largest landfill in the world (former), is located in Staten Island, New York. It is a total of 2200 acres where it opened in 1948 and lasted until March of 2001. The initial goal of the landfill was to remain open for five years, yet it was open longer, if not for a few decades. This landfill was one of the dominant landfills for storing garbage collected around New York City. Around 1986-1987, Fresh Kills landfill received approximately 29,000 tons of trash per day and

Coming from another state I had not heard or learnt about Rudy Giuliani prior to the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001. I could not have told you the Mayor of New York's name before the attacks, but as the rubble was cleaned up and the spirit and patriotism of America grew, Mayor Giuliani was front and center. Such a disastrous situation could not have been handled as cautiously and swiftly as Giuliani handled it. It became quite clear that Mayor Giuliani was not your average politician

promotional strategy for the Staten Island Yankees, the Class-A short season affiliate of Major League Baseball's famed New York Yankees, the first priority would be to conduct a thorough appraisal of the organization's current situation. Playing within the confines Richmond County Bank Ballpark, a 7,171-seat waterfront stadium on the northernmost tip of Staten Island, the team recorded a total attendance figure of 192,568 in the 2011 season. This figure means the average Staten Island Yankees game drew only

children's book editor from Harper and Row asked Zindel if he wanted to be a writer and he accepted. He soon came out with The Pigman a Story about two teenagers that have an unlikely friendship with an old man. Paul Zindel was born on May 15th 1936 on Staten Island, New York. When John and Lorraine started messing around with Mr.Pignati all of their lives went from faulty to terrible. This happened

What do Ben and Sophia have in common? Ben and Sophia have a lot of things in common, and these are the ones that stood out the most to me. They both lost something that is valuable/important to them and that were red. For example Ben lost his red phone that was very important to him. It was very important to him, because the red phone only rings when there is an emergencies. “ However, it was a lot harder to find a secret agent red phone in a very messy secret agent bedroom.” When both Ben