{"id":944,"date":"2006-04-10T09:39:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/when_you_put_it_that_way_it_really_does_seem_like_an_alpine_meadow.html"},"modified":"2006-04-10T09:39:55","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T17:39:55","slug":"when_you_put_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/when_you_put_it.html","title":{"rendered":"When You Put It That Way, It Really Does Seem Like An Alpine Meadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/08\/nyregion\/08staten.html?ex=1302148800&#038;en=900747a28aee9507&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">The Parks Department is planning to begin bus tours of the Fresh Kills landfill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Forget the liquid ooze from New York City&#8217;s garbage, slowly seeping downward, five years after the last load of trash arrived at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island. Don&#8217;t mind the methane gas, which is slowly percolating underground and which the city hopes to harness someday to create electricity, and revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s Department of Parks and Recreation will offer monthly bus tours, starting at the end of this month, as part of the effort to transform Fresh Kills, once the world&#8217;s largest landfill, into a vast park with picnic grounds, athletic fields and a giant earthen monument to the Sept. 11 victims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a great way for New Yorkers to understand the spectacular potential of Fresh Kills to become the great park of the 21st century,&#8221; the parks commissioner, Adrian Benepe, said yesterday. &#8220;Being on top of any of the mounds gives you a view unparalleled anywhere in New York City. You have the feeling of being on an alpine meadow.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parks Department is planning to begin bus tours of the Fresh Kills landfill: Forget the liquid ooze from New York City&#8217;s garbage, slowly seeping downward, five years after the last load of trash arrived at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island. Don&#8217;t mind the methane gas, which is slowly percolating underground and which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}