Welcome to the new blog of the Graduate Urban Affairs and Planning Association (GUAPA) at Hunter College. We are excited to share content with you about what our fellow students and alumni are studying, working on, and exploring.

First, here are some pictures from a tour we took this past August of the Freshkills Park in Staten Island. This park, as you may know, is situated on a former landfill, and is not fully open to the public yet, as it is undergoing a long-term environmental remediation and planning effort. Special thanks to the Parks Department for this great tour and to our fellow planning student, Jeremiah Cox, for supplying these excellent photos.

What an amazing view of Lower Manhattan!