Freshkills Park on Time.com

Time.com has posted a short video piece on the history and transformation of the Freshkills Park site, featuring Park Administrator Eloise Hirsh and Department of Sanitation Anthropologist-in-Residence, Robin Nagle.

The City Concealed

The newest episode of PBS Thirteen’s online video series The City Concealed features Freshkills Park.  Park Administrator Eloise Hirsh gives a guided tour of the site and its history, punctuating the scenic drive with a look around the landscape of the future South Park and a view into the Department of Sanitation’s waste byproduct treatment facilities.

Freshkills Park and MAS, together again

Last week, the Municipal Arts Society (MAS) hosted a panel called Urban Parks in the Twenty-First Century: Creating a New Model.  Park designers, administrators and other experts discussed the some of New York City’s most innovative new park projects: Concrete Plant Park  in the South Bronx, Riverside South on the Upper West Side, and, of course, Freshkills Park.  Presentations and discussion focused on the travails of developing sustainable parks on challenging sites in the current fiscal climate.

MAS was instrumental in making the Freshkills Park project happen way back when the landfill was closed in 2001.  Freshkills Park Administrator Eloise Hirsh spoke at the event about where that early support has carried us thusfar. The folks at MAS put together the clip above (also viewable on the MAS page) with some of the highlights of Eloise’s talk.  Their archive of Freshkills Park-related events and content is here.

Upcoming Freshkills Park projects on NY1

On-air on NY1 right now: an interview and tour with Freshkills Park Administrator Eloise Hirsh about two sections of the park that will be open within the next year-and-a-half: the Owl Hollow Soccer Fields and Schmul Park.  You can watch the clip online or on TV, airing all day on NY1.

More images of both projects here.