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Great blue heron ( Ardea herodia) Often found on Staten Island near the water. Green heron (Butorides virescens) Will take to feeding in the Bronx River in summertime. Also found occasionally in Jamaica Bay and marshy portions on the New Jersey side of the estuary, attracted by small fish.
Closed. March 22, 2001. ( 2001-03-22) Area. • Total. 900 ha (2,200 acres) The Fresh Kills Landfill was a landfill covering 2,200 acres (890 ha) in the New York City borough of Staten Island in the United States. The name comes from the landfill's location along the banks of the Fresh Kills estuary in western Staten Island.
Wolfe's Pond Park. Coordinates: 40°31′18″N 74°11′35″W. Pond. Beach in the park. Wolfes Pond Park is a large public park located on Staten Island 's South Shore. It is bounded on the south by Holton Avenue, on the east by Raritan Bay, on the west by the Staten Island Railway, and on the north by Chisholm Street, Luten Avenue, and ...
Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve is 265-acre (1.07 km 2) state park [2] located near the southwestern shore of Staten Island, New York. [5] It is the only state park located on Staten Island.
Clove Lakes Park. Coordinates: 40°37′10″N 74°06′50″W. Clove Lakes Park. Clove Lakes Park is a public park in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City. [1] Clove Lakes Park has a rich natural history with valuable ecological assets and a few remnants of the past. Chief among them are the park's lakes and ponds ...
The Arthur Kill (sometimes referred to as the Staten Island Sound [1]) is a tidal strait in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary between Staten Island (also known as Richmond County), New York and Union and Middlesex counties, New Jersey. It is a major navigational channel of the Port of New York and New Jersey .
New York Harbor [1] [2] [3] is a bay that covers all of the Upper Bay and an extremely small portion of the Lower Bay. It is at the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into New York/New Jersey Bight near the East River tidal estuary, and then into the Atlantic Ocean on the East Coast of the United States.
New Dorp Beach. Coordinates: 40°33′51″N 74°06′16″W. New Dorp Beach, October 2012, on the site of the old Clearwater Beach Colony that was torn down around 1965. New Dorp Beach is along the shore of the neighborhood of New Dorp, on Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City. It is between Midland Beach and Oakwood Beach .