First it was a "low-down, muddy, tidal place." Some Native Americans called it "Aquehonga Manacknong, or 'haunted woods.'" In the 1600s, it was settled by "French Huguenots, Walloons, and freed slaves." Henry David Thoreau used to dig for arrowheads there. Brickmakers dug for clay there. John Muir explored there. And then New York dumped trash there. Robert Sullivan gives Fresh ...

Unwashed hipsters disembark the L train and flood Manhattan for the final day of the CMJ music festival, clad in high-top sneakers, gray jeans in a children’s size, and a few fake tattoos. Sway to the soothing sounds of bands Die! Die! Die!, The Art of Shooting, Charm City Devils, Iran, the Muslims, Cereal Killa, the Fresh Kills, Los ...

More than six years before Sarah Palin visited ground zero as the Republican vice presidential nominee, her parents were there as part of the response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — trapping rats. Chuck and Sally Heath have been part-time U.S. Department of Agriculture wildlife specialists ...

A judge on Monday rejected a lawsuit brought by several families of Sept. 11 terrorism victims that sought to move World Trade Center debris, which may contain human remains, from a landfill to a plot of land that could be made into a cemetery. U.S ...