Fresh Kills Park
The Fresh Kills Park Project is focused on transforming the former Fresh Kills Landfill on the Arthur Kill waterfront of Staten Island into a new public park over the next 30 years.
At 2,200 acres - almost three times the size of Central Park - New York’s Fresh Kills Park will be one of the most ambitious public works projects in the world, combining state of the art ecological restoration techniques with extraordinary settings for recreation, public art, and facilities for many sports and programs that are unusual in the city. In fact, the stage is already set for this impressive site to become a park. While nearly forty-five percent of the site was once used for landfilling operations, the remainder of the site is currently composed of wetlands, open waterways, and unfilled lowland areas. The tops of the landfill mounds themselves offer spectacular vistas of the expansive site, as well as views of downtown Manhattan.
See the Fresh Kills Site
Although the site is not currently open to ongoing general public access, between the months of April and November, you can take a public bus tour led by the NYC Urban Park Rangers.Sign up for a Fresh Kills tour!
It’s My Park
Fresh Kills Park was featured on the August 21, 2007 episode of It’s My Park, a show seen on channel NYC25, showcasing parks in New York City. Watch the four-minute episode to learn more about the exciting transformation of the Fresh Kills site.
