Place
Freshkills Park
Also known as: Fresh Kills Park, Fresh Kills Landfill
The 2,200-acre landscape-scale ecological restoration of the former Fresh Kills Landfill — operated 1948–2001 as the largest landfill in the world. The park, when fully open, will be roughly three times the size of Central Park, and is being engineered through the slow capping, planting, and re-ecologizing of decades of municipal waste. One of the most-ambitious brownfield-to-greenspace transformations in the United States, on track to phase open through the 2030s.
Why this listing
Substrate-building includes the rare case where the substrate has to be built from nothing — or worse, from decades of contaminated waste. Freshkills Park is the working example of that scale of transformation in NYC. Listed as substrate-builder because the literal work — methane capture, capping, native-meadow seeding, decades-long soil development — is substrate work at the largest spatial scale in the borough.
See also
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- Enables: [[bioregion]]
- Shares approach with: [[staten-island-greenbelt-conservancy]]
- Member of: [[place]]
- Contained by: [[staten-island]]
Sources
- Freshkills Park Alliance published materials and master plan documentation
- NYC Department of Sanitation Fresh Kills closure records (2001)
- NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Freshkills Park program
Rooted in life.
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Scientific
substrate of
- Switchgrass switchgrass is part of the native warm-season grass mix establishing on Freshkills's capped landfill mounds
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