• At 2,200 acres, Freshkills Park is almost three times the size of Central Park and the largest park to be developed in New York City in over 100 years.
  • Get a glimpse of the thriving range of birds and animals found at the park. Check out a recording taken at one of Freshkills Park’s Osprey nests, with chicks!
  • Freshkills Park is a public park being built atop a former landfill on Staten Island. At about 2,200 acres (8.9 km2), it will be the largest park developed in New York City since...
  • At 2,200 acres, Freshkills Park will be almost three times the size of Central Park and the largest park developed in New York City in over 100 years.
  • Freshkills Park is the largest park developed in New York City in over a century. The transformation of what was once the world’s largest landfill into a...
  • From dump to diva, the Freshkills Park will be the largest park developed in New York City in over 100 years.
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  • While Fresh Kills Landfill helped preserve 2,200 acres of land for eventual park use, it is a significant lesson in the rampant growth of our consumption.
  • On the West Shore of Staten Island is Freshkills Park - a long -gestating public greenspace to replace the former landfill.
  • The job of implementing this plan was turned over to the Department of Parks & Recreation upon the selection of a Fresh Kills Park Administrator in 2006.