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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.
Fresh Kills (from the Middle Dutch word kille, meaning "riverbed" or "water channel") is a stream and freshwater estuary in the western portion of the borough of Staten Island in New York City, United States. It is the site of the Fresh Kills Landfill, formerly New York City's principal landfill.
The Fresh Kills Landfill was a landfill covering 2,200 acres (890 ha) in the borough of Staten Island in New York City, United States. The name comes from the landfill's location along the banks of the Fresh Kills estuary in western Staten Island.
Great Kills Park is a public park in Great Kills, Staten Island, New York City. Originally named Marine Park , [ 1 ] it is a part of the Staten Island unit of Gateway National Recreation Area . Administered by the National Park Service , it covers an area of approximately 580 acres (2.3 km 2 ) of salt marsh , beach and woodlands, stretching ...
In January, 2020 Amazon announced it will expand its footprint on Staten Island, leasing a 450,000 square foot warehouse next to its existing 855,000 sq. ft. fulfillment center. [ 5 ] The West Shore's vast expanses of unused land has made it the focus of many ambitious and controversial development proposals at the start of the 21st century.
Staten Islanders on the South Shore have the longest average commute of anyone in New York City. [3] Commuters to Manhattan have the option of express buses, which run along Hylan Boulevard, Richmond Avenue, and New York State Route 440, or the Staten Island Railway. Express train service cuts the commute time to and from the Staten Island Ferry.
Riis Park continued to have sewage and wastewater treatment problems. On July 17, 1988, the beach was closed after eight syringes washed up onto the beach. Beaches at South Beach, Midland Beach, and Great Kills Park in Staten Island had previously been closed due to the same issue. [106] [107] The beach was reopened on July 22. [108]
Richmond Creek is a major stream in Staten Island, New York City. Its upper drainage basin includes the remote forested hills in the center of the island. It empties into the Fresh Kills. [1] Its source is Ohrbach Lake, located on the grounds of the Pouch Camp, maintained by the Boy Scouts of America.