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The park consists of three lakes: the main one is Clove Lake, which runs off to Martling Lake, and then to Brooks Lake. The Staten Island Expressway, part of Interstate 278 , built in 1964, goes through a cleft just south of the park, connecting the then newly built Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in the east with the Goethals Bridge in the west.
Shirley Chisholm State Park is a 407-acre (1.65 km 2) state park in southeastern Brooklyn, New York City.It is bound by Belt Parkway and Spring Creek Park to the north and Jamaica Bay to the south, situated atop the former Pennsylvania Avenue and Fountain Avenue Landfills.
Grymes Hill includes two cemeteries, both located along Victory Boulevard. Woodland Cemetery dates back to the nineteenth century, and some headstones are in German, reflecting the population of the day. Silver Lake Cemetery also dates back to the nineteenth century, and was the original burial site for the Hebrew Free Burial Association.
Silver Lake Park, located on Staten Island's north shore, is bounded by Forest Avenue, Victory Boulevard and Clove Road. The original Silver Lake was a spring-fed body of water formed at the end of the ice age, and now makes up the south basin of the reservoir at this site.
Clove Brook is a 12.0-mile-long (19.3 km) [1] tributary of Papakating Creek in Sussex County, New Jersey in the United States. [2]Clove Brook, previously known as Bastions Brook, Clove Creek, Clove River, and Deep Clove River, rises from north of Colesville and travels in a southeasterly direction, predominantly on the north side of State Route 23, down through the Clove Valley toward Sussex ...
Stony Clove Creek is a 10.3-mile-long (16.6 km) [3] creek in the Catskill Mountains in New York. It is a tributary of Esopus Creek , which in turn is a tributary of the Hudson River . It joins the Esopus in the village of Phoenicia , and has two smaller tributaries up north of Phoenicia.
Staten Island is known as the borough of parks because of its numerous parks. Some well known parks are Clove Lakes, Silver Lake, Greenbelt and High Rock. Paulo's Peak (formerly Moses Mountain), a hill known for its view of the borough, is the location where Robert Moses wanted to build the Richmond Parkway before protests defeated this ...
Plattekill Creek is a 16.7-mile-long (26.9 km) [2] tributary of Esopus Creek in the Catskill Mountains in the U.S. state of New York.From its source on the southern slopes of Kaaterskill High Peak, it flows across Ulster and Greene counties to the Esopus at Mount Marion.