Freshkills Park (North)

Park · Staten Island

The northern section of Freshkills Park lies on Staten Island's western edge beside the Travis neighborhood, part of the 2,200-acre park rising on the former Fresh Kills Landfill.

  • 2.45 square miles
  • 3 street corners
  • 25 bus routes

The landfill operated from 1948 until 2001, and its name comes from the Middle Dutch word kille, for a riverbed or water channel. Here the first phase of North Park, 21 acres overlooking Main Creek and its wetlands, opened in October 2023 with a half-mile path, a 20-foot bird tower and a wetland deck. NYC Parks is building the park in phases, aiming to open it fully by 2036, with the nonprofit Freshkills Park Alliance as its partner.

Sources: FAQs (Freshkills Park Alliance); North Park – Completed in 2023 and Now Open (Freshkills Park Alliance); Fresh Kills Park Transformation Takes Major Step Forward with Release of Draft Master Plan Illustrating Planned Features of the Park (April 6, 2006) (NYC Department of City Planning); Fresh Kills Landfill (Wikipedia).

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Freshkills Park (North) borders five areas.

Street map of Freshkills Park (North), Staten Island, outlined among New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis, Freshkills Park (South), Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights and Arden Heights-Rossville, with its paths and the streets around it.New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-TravisTodt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor HeightsArden Heights-RossvilleGreat Kills-EltingvilleFreshkills Park (South)
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on 25 routes stop in or at the edge of Freshkills Park (North).

  • 13 local bus routes
  • 12 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • S44
  • S55
  • S56
  • S59
  • S61
  • S62
  • S74
  • S79-SBS
  • S84
  • S89
  • S91
  • S92
  • S94

Express bus routes

  • SIM1
  • SIM1C
  • SIM4
  • SIM4C
  • SIM5
  • SIM6
  • SIM7
  • SIM8
  • SIM10
  • SIM15
  • SIM31
  • SIM32

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported zero crashes at all 3 of its corners.

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Parks

Parkland
868 acres of Freshkills Park, as NYC Parks maps it within the area's boundary

Streets and trees

Trees
980 in NYC Parks' records, most often sweetgum, maple and American elm
Height above sea level
From 14 feet at West Service Road & DSNY Transfer Station Driveway to 43 feet at Nursery Path & Picnic Path

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.