Malcolm Gladwell
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3,035 appearances
50 recordings
16 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 17 Sep
Malcolm Gladwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My producer Lucy Sullivan visited one of the largest parks in New York City.
Not Central Park.
Not Prospect Park.
Fresh Skills Park
On Staten Island.
Lucy was there with Ben Adaf Hafrey, reporting for our latest series, The Staten Island Problem.
And while she was there, Lucy uncovered a mystery.
There was one part of the park, one section that she wasn't allowed to visit.
Why?
Because of what's buried there.
Today the park is rolling green hills, a beautiful and peaceful place.
But Fresh Gills, as you may know, used to be the world's largest landfill.
Mayor Rudy Giuliani closed it in the 90s, and the last barge sailed to Staten Island in March of 2001.
Or so everyone thought.
Six months later.
In September of two thousand and one, it had to reopen.
Fresh Kills became the site of a giant operation to sort through the rubble from the nine eleven terrorist attacks.
The last thing brought to the landfill was what remained of the Twin Towers and all the people who perished there.
A giant pile of dirt and dust.
Today Lucy Sullivan has a story about that pile of dust and the battle over where it should go.
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