The NYC Organics Collection pilot program, currently only active in a few neighborhoods, is an early step in an effort to train city residents to separate their organic waste so it can be composted instead of dumped in landfills.
The abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch passing beneath the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Forest Park
Zoom in and you can see that's what's stenciled on the concrete lintel above the entrance to the brick building here at the city DOT's Glendale Yard maintenance facility.
This little family burial ground is believed to date back to the mid-18th century. The oldest identifiable grave is that of Colonel Jeromus Remsen, a veteran of the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War, who died in 1790.
Complete with a big bag of flavored Japanese seaweed
