Fresh Kills Landfill

The Fresh Kills Landfill was a landfill covering 2,200 acres in the borough of in , United States. The name comes from the landfill's location along the banks of the estuary in western Staten Island.
Wikipedia
Photo: Chester Higgins Jr., Public domain.
  • Landfill
  • …lies at an elevation of 33 feet (10 metres)
  • Description: landfill site

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Island of Meadows and Carteret Public Library.

Island
Photo: Decumanus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Isle of Meadows is an 87-acre uninhabited island…

Library
Photo: Mr. Matté, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Fresh Kills Landfill.

Church
Photo: Mr. Matté, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 1½ miles northwest of Fresh Kills Landfill.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chrome and Rossville.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community located within…

Neighborhood
Photo: Peter Greenberg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a neighborhood of , , on the island's South Shore.

Fresh Kills Landfill

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Latitude
40.56583° or 40° 33′ 57″ north
Longitude
-74.20278° or 74° 12′ 10″ west
Open location code
87G7HQ8W+8V
Geo­Names ID
6352854
Wiki­data ID
Q1455686

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Urdu—“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”
  • Urdu: “فریش کلز لینڈ فل”

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