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I'm a little confused. I'm pretty sure they kept this dump open specifically so they could dispose of the Sept 11 attack detritus. How could the NYT miss that d

• jasonv 6y ago
  From the article: "The South Mound was capped in 1996, the North Mound the next year. Shortly after that last barge arrived in 2001, the park’s design contest, sponsored by the Municipal Arts Society, was complicated when debris from the World Trade Center disaster wound up in Fresh Kills, now buried in the West Mound."
• lhorie 6y ago
  You hope someone lost their livelihood due to the perception that they did not write down a piece of trivia in an article? Geez. I get the magnitude of 9/11, but the hyperbole seems misplaced here.
  • tomjakubowski 6y ago
    It's a line from the Simpsons, so I think it was meant as a self-deprecating joke. Though the reference is a little out of nowhere. (I guess there was the episode where The Who played a concert on top of Springfield's garbage dump)
    • dmix 6y ago
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxw5nQX7SA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxw5nQX7SA
  • taneq 6y ago
    > I get the magnitude of 9/11 Equivalent to the last three days of COVID-19 deaths?