ecology | Freshkills Park

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2015: BioBlitz

By Freshkills Park • On August 30, 2015 • In Landfill to Park

In partnership with CUNY Macaulay Honors College, over 400 Macaulay students, nature lovers and citizen scientists canvassed 300 acres of North Park during BioBlitz to count the plants and animals that call the park home.

The data collected from the 24-hour survey will help Freshkills Park begin to document the resurgence of wildlife and the biodiversity at the site, and will be used throughout the year in CUNY Macaulay Honors College classes and projects.

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Before 1948: Fresh Kills

By Freshkills Park • On February 1, 1930 • In Landfill to Park

The Fresh Kills site in its natural state was primarily tidal creeks and coastal marsh. The name “Fresh Kills” comes from the Middle Dutch word kille, meaning “riverbed” or “water channel.” In the early 1900s it was a stream and freshwater estuary in the western portion of the New York City borough of Staten Island.

Image: Isle of Meadows, Fresh Kills, 1933, via the Staten Island Museum.