The Frederick Douglass Memorial Park is the only extant, non-sectarian cemetery in New York City that was founded by and for African Americans at a time when discrimination and segregation excluded them from other cemeteries.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez officially commissions the Dorothy Day, the third and final new, 4,500-passenger Ollis-class Staten Island Ferry vessel.
The Commissioners made the announcement standing atop the former landfill nearly 20 years after the it received its final piece of debris from Ground Zero and months ahead of the opening of North Park, the first major phase of what will become a 2,200-acre park.
State DEC certifying landfill as officially closed; key step in decades-long process of converting Fresh Kills from landfill to park. This certification comes nearly 20 years after Fresh Kills received its final piece of debris from Ground Zero and months ahead of the opening of North Park.
A transcript about Mayor Eric Adams announcing the opening of a rooftop farm on Staten Island alongside New York Department of Environment Protection (DEP) Commissioner Rohit T. Aggarwala.
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