A park on a pile of trash

Does Freshkills get more love than it should?

Sometime this spring or summer, I hope to be able to visit Freshkills Park on Staten Island, the world’s largest landfill-to-park project. The North Park is slated to open to the public in June of this year, only 17 months behind schedule. When the park is completed, which is supposed to happen by 2036, it will be 2,200 acres, well over twice the size o…