Exploring New York City’s Most Beautiful Toxic Waste Dump
<p>S<strong>hirley Chisholm Park</strong> is the end result of a nearly hundred-year legacy of the contest between environmental conservation, urban development, and political expediency. Prior to the 1930s, the park was mostly marshland and the open waters of Jamaica Bay, until in that year Robert Moses proposed the Belt Parkway and Shore Parkway in his ever-expanding empire of New York highways (the Belt is one of New York’s notorious transportation punching bags, recently earning the honorific of a meme showing a picture of the highway’s perennial construction, reading: “Be like the Belt Parkway. Never stop working on yourself, no matter how much it inconveniences others”).</p>
<p>In 1942,<a href="https://medium.com/brooklyn-wilds/exploring-new-york-citys-most-beautiful-toxic-waste-dump-d7a4115eee4e#_ftn1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow">[1]</a> the New York City Planning Commission and Board of Estimate approved a project to dump landfill on the site as part of the city’s post-World War II program, in order to create parkland on the site. </p>
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