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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
The South Shore is a geographical term applied to the area in the New York City borough of Staten Island, south and east of the island's ridge of hills (and Richmond Creek and Fresh Kills south of Historic Richmond Town) along the waterfront and adjacent areas from the Narrows to the mouth of the Arthur Kill.
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.
Most of the district's population lives in Staten Island. Freshkills Park, the Staten Island Greenbelt, Fort Hamilton, Dyker Beach Park and Golf Course, and Miller Field are also located within the district. The district overlaps with Staten Island Community Boards 1, 2, and 3 and Brooklyn Community Boards 10 and 11.
Arthur Kill Road is a major northeast-southwest artery along the South-West Shore of the New York City borough of Staten Island.It is 8.54 miles (13.74 km) long, [1] and runs through the neighborhoods of Tottenville, Richmond Valley, Charleston, Rossville, Woodrow, Huguenot, Arden Heights, Annadale, Eltingville, Greenridge, Great Kills, and Richmondtown.