Fresh Kills Landfill
The Fresh Kills Landfill was a landfill covering 2,200 acres 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chester Higgins Jr., Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Island of Meadows and Bloomingdale Park.
Island of Meadows
Island
Photo: Decumanus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Isle of Meadows is a 87-acre uninhabited island in the New York City borough of Staten Island in the United States. It is located along the western side of Staten Island, where Fresh Kills empties into the Arthur Kill.
Bloomingdale Park
Park
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Bloomingdale Park is a 138-acre park on the South Shore of Staten Island. It is located in the Prince's Bay neighborhood, and is bounded on the north by Ramona Avenue, on the west by Bloomingdale Road, on the east by Lenevar Avenue, and on the south by Drumgoole Road West and the Korean War Veterans Parkway. Bloomingdale Park is situated 2½ miles south of Fresh Kills Landfill.
Carteret High School
School
Photo: Mr. Matté, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Carteret High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Carteret in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, as the lone secondary school of the Carteret School District. Carteret High School is situated 1½ miles northwest of Fresh Kills Landfill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chrome and Rossville.
Chrome
Hamlet
Chrome is an unincorporated community located within Carteret in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The area first received the name in the mid-1900s decade due to the many steel plants in the neighborhood, including the Chrome Steel company.
Rossville
Neighborhood
Photo: Peter Greenberg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rossville is a neighborhood of Staten Island, New York, on the island's South Shore. It is located to the north of Woodrow, to the west of Arden Heights, and to the south and east of the Arthur Kill. Rossville is located within Staten Island Community Board 3.
Fresh Kills Landfill
- Type: Landfill
- Description: landfill site
- Category: transportation
- Location: Staten Island, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Russian—“Fresh Kills Landfill” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Fresh Kills垃圾掩埋場”
- Chinese: “弗萊希基爾斯垃圾處理場”
- Chinese: “清泉溪填埋场”
- Chinese: “清泉溪填埋場”
- Chinese: “清泉溪掩埋場”
- Chinese: “鮮殺垃圾填埋場”
- Danish: “Fresh Kills Landfill”
- Dutch: “Fresh Kills Landfill”
- French: “Décharge de Fresh Kills”
- German: “Fresh Kills Landfill”
- Hausa: “Sabbin Filayen ƙasa”
- Hebrew: “פארק פרש קילז”
- Hebrew: “פארק פרש קילס”
- Italian: “Fresh Kills Landfill”
- Japanese: “フレッシュ・キルズごみ埋め立て地”
- Japanese: “フレッシュ・キルズ埋め立て”
- Japanese: “フレッシュ・キルズ埋立地”
- Malay: “Fresh Kills Landfill”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fresh Kills Landfill”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fresh Kills”
- Norwegian: “Fresh Kills Landfill”
- Portuguese: “Aterro de Fresh Kills”
- Portuguese: “Aterro sanitário de Fresh Kills”
- Portuguese: “Aterro Sanitário de Fresh Kills”
- Portuguese: “Fresh Kills Landfill”
- Russian: “Полигон Фрешкиллс”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fresh Kills Landfill”. Photo: Chester Higgins Jr., Public domain.