Where do the street trees come from, and where does the compost go? Rikers Island was the city’s growing outpost for years. But does “greening” the prison always improve things for prisoners?

In West Harlem, a wastewater treatment plants hides beneath a 28-acre state park.

Photographers focus on the grasslands that cap the former Fresh Kills landfill and provide new homes for threatened wildlife.

We seek a writer to explore and interpret the contemporary urban landscape where highways meet gas wells, herons, and kayakers.

Photographers explore the infrastructural underpinnings of Freshkills Park.

Three supers of three very different buildings get into the nitty gritty of their work, helping us understand what it might take to make the city's ambitious Zero Waste vision a reality.

A photo essay documenting what will become Freshkills's East Park shows that new life can emerge from the most toxic environments.

Five photographers return to the site of the Freshkills Park Project to document the transformation of landfill into landscape.

Five photographers roamed a wintry Freshkills Park, finding company in ducks and deer.

Retired sanitation worker Nelson Molina has collected and curated thousands of things New Yorkers threw away. A photo essay by Lana Barkin.