{"id":324371,"date":"2026-08-18T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324371\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:38:08","slug":"new-staten-island-trash-complex-lets-city-make-way-for-hundreds-of-new-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324371\/","title":{"rendered":"New Staten Island trash complex lets city make way for hundreds of new homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"51zgu\">New York City&#8217;s sanitation department unveiled a sprawling new $230 million facility on one end of Staten Island on Tuesday, which will enable the city to <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/nyc-is-turning-a-home-for-garbage-trucks-into-affordable-housing-on-staten-island\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">build hundreds of new apartments<\/a> on the other end of the borough.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"8rbmu\">The new Fresh Kills sanitation complex was first devised 12 years ago as a replacement for the city\u2019s Jersey Street Garage on Staten Island\u2019s North Shore. The 68-year-old structure is set to be razed and replaced with 232 new apartments and a new grocery store.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fq3hh\">The new 140,000-square-foot sanitation building is housed among other trash facilities at Fresh Kills, which was once the city\u2019s biggest garbage dump. It was closed in 2001 after operating for over 50 years, but was briefly reopened after 9\/11 so investigators could sort through the rubble to identify human remains.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"51zgu\">The facility includes a new salt shed, rooftop solar systems and a new fueling station for sanitation vehicles. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said its opening will make it easier for crews to keep the streets clean.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"abb7s\">\u201cThe new Fresh Kills complex will strengthen the services Staten Islanders rely on, from trash collection and street cleaning to snowplowing and salt spreading,\u201d the mayor wrote in a statement. \u201cAnd by moving these operations, we\u2019re making way for hundreds of new affordable homes, public space and a grocery store.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"21td\">Bryan Mendoza, who grew up near the Jersey Street Garage, said he\u2019d become accustomed to the sights \u2014 and smells \u2014 on the block, but noted the new housing would be a welcome change.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4g7d2\">\u201c\u200aIt does smell. Really, it does,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s sad to go, but it&#8217;s also a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City&#8217;s sanitation department unveiled a sprawling new $230 million facility on one end of Staten Island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-324371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}