Rodo said, standing atop the family's deck and sweeping her arm toward the cityscape on the horizon. It's a magnificent panorama that Rodo and her neighbors on the streets east of Schuyler Avenue proudly treasure. But there's a putrid price for living here and savoring the million-dollar view.
Residents have to overlook the mountain of garbage looming large beyond their backyard fences.
Growth of the huge mound has slowed in the past couple of years, now that it is no longer a receptacle for household garbage. But the landfill still welcomes about 250 trucks a day carrying 1,100 tons of new trash, now all demolition debris. North nearly impossible to ignore. It's so big that it has removed the lower 50 stories or so of the World Trade Center from many backyard vistas. But for people in the neighborhood overlooking it, who are sometimes referred to as the Cliff Dwellers, living alongside the garbage just comes with the territory.