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  2. Freshkills Park - Wikipedia

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    Freshkills Park is a public park being built atop a former landfill on Staten Island. At about 2,200 acres (8.9 km 2 ), it will be the largest park developed in New York City since the 19th century.

  3. Fresh Kills - Wikipedia

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    Covering 2,200 acres (8.9 km 2), nearly three times the size of Central Park, Fresh Kills Park will offer a variety of public spaces and facilities for varied activities including nature trails, mountain biking, community events, outdoor dining, sports fields, kayaking and canoeing.

  4. Fresh Kills Landfill - Wikipedia

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    The new park was designed by James Corner Field Operations, the landscape architecture firm also responsible for the design of the High Line in Manhattan. [ 25 ] In January 2005, Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro announced plans to open three roads leading out of the former landfill to regular traffic, as part of an effort to ease ...

  5. Richmond Creek (Fresh Kills) - Wikipedia

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    It flows under Richmond Avenue south of the Staten Island Mall, and flows into the Fresh Kills alongside the former Fresh Kills Landfill and the developing Freshkills Park. [2] In colonial times and in the early 19th century, the creek was used to operate up to 11 mills in the center of the island. [2]

  6. Massive NYC landfill-to-park project hits a milestone; first ...

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    The 21-acre (8.5-hectare) North Park section of what has become Freshkills Park includes pedestrian and cycling paths, an overlook deck, bird viewing tower and composting restroom that uses no water.

  7. James Corner - Wikipedia

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    His designs of note include Fresh Kills Park on Staten Island and the High Line in Manhattan, and Domino Park in Brooklyn, all in New York City. Corner is a professionally registered landscape architect and the principal of James Corner Field Operations, a landscape architecture and urban design practice based in New York City.

  8. William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    The park was named in honor of Staten Island native William T. Davis, a renowned naturalist and entomologist who along with the Audubon Society started the refuge with an original acquisition of 52 acres (210,000 m 2). Additional acreage was acquired in increments and the park is today 814 acres (3.29 km 2).

  9. Mierle Laderman Ukeles - Wikipedia

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    In 1989, Ukeles was commissioned by the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island, to work on the reclamation project to transform the 2200-acre, largest manmade site, to a recreational park known as Freshkills Park. Ukeles invited New Yorkers from all five boroughs to contribute palm-sized artworks made of trash.