From April to November every year, you can take a tour of Freshkills Park on Staten Island, which will be the largest park built by New York City in over 100 years. Here are some fun facts that might surprise you about Freshkills:
1. The “kill” in Freshkills comes from the Middle Dutch word for “stream” or “channel”
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2. It was once the site of the largest landfill in the world, at 2200 acres.
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3. By 2001, it was 25 meters taller than the Statue of Liberty.
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4. It has been called the largest manmade structure on earth, larger than the Great Wall of China by volume.
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5. The completed park will be almost 3x the size of Central Park.
Image: James Corner Field Operations
6. The park is being designed by James Corner Field Operations, the same firm that did the landscaping for the High Line.
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