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Freshkills Park Newsletter,Fresh Perspectives, Under Title 11 of the Environmental Protection Fund fresh perspectives FreshkillsPark Newsletter— Winter/Spring 2011 Dynamic South Park design In This Issue now nearing completion 5 The history and value of wetlands at the Freshkills Park site Landscape architects at James Corner Field Operations are hard at work completing construction drawings for the first phase of development in the South Park section of 6 Freshkills Park. This area of South Park will span 20 acres of the site and will be the Composting toilets and their first piece of parkland atop one of the site’s six landfill mounds. environmental benefits The 2006 Draft Master Plan for Freshkills Park identified the 425-acre South 7 Park as a hub for recreational amenities and a network of paths winding through Wildlife Spotlight: Muskrat diverse habitats and providing extraordinary views. Phase One has been designed to maximize visitors’ experience of the site, even though the project covers only a 7 fraction of South Park’s total area. A 2.4-mile pathway for bikes and pedestrians Quiz: How many Sanitation vehicles will connect the site’s amenities: softball and little league fields; play areas and a can you identify? lawn; an expansive area for races and games; a picnic grove; and a large, flowering meadow and event space on the slope of the site’s central mound. Benefiting from a variety of topography and with access from both local roads and the West Shore Expressway, South Park Phase One will provide a glimpse of the full promise of Above: A rendering of the 50-foot wide Backstretch, which has been designed to Freshkills Park. accommodate cyclists, runners, games and CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 more. http://www.nyc.gov/parks/freshkillspark 1 South Park Phase One to host a variety of activities and landscapes From PAGE 1 Grove. MillionTreesNYC is a citywide ACCESS initiative seeking to plant and care for Freshkills Park Team Visitors to South Park will enter via one million trees throughout New York Parks & Recreation Commissioner either the western or southern edges City over the next decade. Through Adrian Benepe of the site. At the western edge, park the project, 950 saplings have already users will find a 150-space parking been planted in this portion of South S.I. Borough Commissioner lot accessible from the northbound Park. Next to this young forest, visitors Adena Long West Shore Expressway. At the will be able to picnic and play in a Park Administrator southern edge, patrons will enter a shaded grove planted with shagbark Eloise Hirsh local entrance and 40-space parking hickory, American sweetgum, sassafras, lot off of Arthur Kill Road in the Arden ironwood, swamp white oak and other Capital Program Manager Heights neighborhood. The bigger lot species. Angelyn Chandler will be situated beside a pair of softball/ At the northern edge of the Picnic Land Use Review little league fields and a picnic area Grove, a comfort station will provide & Outreach Manager with new native plantings. The smaller two composting toilets (see the article Carrie Grassi lot, adjacent to a small play area, will on page 6 for more information) and be nestled inside an area of existing derive power for its interior lighting from Landscape Architect vegetation. Native plants including solar panels on the comfort station’s Andrew Deer serviceberry, red chokeberry, sweet roof. Adjacent to the comfort station Programming & Grants Manager pepperbush, silky dogwood and witch will be a bicycle maintenance post, with Raj Kottamasu hazel will be planted for color and amenities for cyclists entering or leaving variety. the site, including bike racks, air pumps Outreach Coordinator and repair stations. Doug Elliott MILLIONTREES Interns MULTI-USE PATHWAY PICNIC GROVE Zeno Levy From the Picnic Grove, multi-use paths Robin Locke Monda Just beyond the Arthur Kill Road parking will provide access to destinations Brian Schundler area will be the MillionTrees Picnic CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 FRESH KILLS CREEK FLARE Mission South Park STATION BASIN EXISTING Phase One BASIN BASIN EAST FUTURE PARK ROAD PARK As Freshkills Park moves from the LITTLE SOUTH planning stages to implementation, MOUND BACKSTRETCH HILLTOP OVERLOOK we strive to keep community HILLSIDE MEADOW TIDAL members informed of the progress WETLAND EVENT STAGE AREA in bringing this innovative project to reality. Building this park requires 1 MILE LOOP PATH FRESHWATER many coordinated activities WETLAND including the planning and design CROSSROADS PICNIC FIELD FRISBEE FIELD of the park, engineering for roads SUNSET OVERLOOK and other technical aspects of the POND RAIN BASIN BALL FIELDS BIG park design and environmental SOUTH P L AY A RE A MOUND assessment and regulatory FRESHWATER 150-SPACE PARKING LOT WETLAND permitting. The purpose of the Fresh MILLION TREES PROJECT PLANTING COMFORT STATION FUTURE COMFORT STATION Perspectives newsletter is to provide & BIKE MAINTENANCE FACILITY WEST POTENTIAL updates about the project’s progress PARK HORSE PICNIC GROVE FACILITY WETLAND 40-SPACE PARKING LOT as well as information about its ( 4 A C ) FOREST P L AY A RE A history and some of the unique PARK ENTRANCE FRESHWATER features, resources and complexities ARDEN WETLAND HEIGHTS of the site. COMMUNITY Fresh Perspectives Winter/Spring 2011 2 Top: From the entrance at Arthur Kill Road, visitors will access the MillionTrees Picnic Grove, a formal picnic and play area that will serve as a threshold to the rest of the site and to the main path coursing through the wilder landscape. Above: The view south from the summit of Little South Mound will encompass the 4.5-acre hillside wildflower meadow as well as the peak of Big South Mound. Left: The lower end of the hillside meadow will be able to host outdoor events, screenings and concerts. 3 http://www.nyc.gov/parks/freshkillspark Recreation, event spaces and habitat improvements are South Park focus CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 will be free to explore, relax and enjoy landfill operations. It will be sited just throughout the expansive landscape of the restored wildflower meadow. This next to the pathway, supporting a large South Park. At the Sunset Overlook, amazing setting is the perfect place for sign announcing the park to drivers visitors will be able to enjoy views year-round activities: bird watching, kite headed northbound along the West overlooking a restored dry prairie flying and picnicking in the summer, Shore Expressway. meadow and the West Mound. and sledding, snowshoeing and skiing Crossing the thin strip of land that in the winter. A moveable stage will be connects the larger and smaller mounds installed periodically at the base of the THE POND of South Park provides a unique vantage slope to host concerts and festivals. AND BALLFIELDS point. With a tidal marsh on one side The pathway will continue across a and a freshwater wetland on the other, THE BACKSTRETCH pond that was created through the visitors will be able to observe a wildlife As the path makes a hairpin turn at course of landfill operations, where corridor traversed by a wide variety of the northern edge of the mound, it will ecologists will be working to restore mammals and birds. become a 50 foot-wide multi-laned a small habitat island with robust and boulevard for all types of recreation. native plantings. This will become a HILLSIDE MEADOW Two rows of planted trees will break popular spot for birders and wildlife At the heart of this phase of South the boulevard into three sections: a enthusiasts. Park is 4.5 acres of hillside meadow. bike path; a walking and sitting area; At the end of the path (or the The pathway will lead visitors across a and five middle lanes designed for beginning, for visitors entering via the land bridge to the smaller of the two flexibility of use and the ability to West Shore Expressway parking lot), mounds that make up South Park. On accommodate runners and bikers as visitors will arrive at two clay-infield the southeastern slope of the smaller well as learn-to-bike classes, relay races, softball/little league fields. The area mound, visitors will be able to enjoy portable climbing walls or skate-dancing around and between the fields will be panoramic views of the Freshkills Park sessions. planted and restored. A comfort station site, including Richmond Creek and Exiting the backstretch, visitors will adjacent to the ballfields will feature its adjacent wetlands and views of be able to get up close and personal composting toilets and solar panels, as surrounding Staten Island. A variety with a Sanitation dinosaur: one of the with the other comfort stations in South of pathways will weave up to the big blue excavators that were used to and North Parks. mound’s 96-foot summit, and visitors unload garbage from barges during SIGNIFICANCE Each construction project at Freshkills Park carries particular weight. Construction of Schmul Park and Owl Hollow Fields, at the northern and southern perimeter, respectively, emphasizes the site’s connection to local communities. Phase One of North Park and its wildlife observation tower, seed farm and tree nursery represents an effort to repair a relationship between the landfill and the environment. At South Park, the design team was tasked with envisioning a project which, despite a limited physical footprint, would provide a rich taste of the variety of activities and the breadth of awesome landscapes and vistas it is possible to experience at Freshkills Park. South Park Phase One is meant to impress, and to Left: Development at South Park will include construction of two clay-infield softball/little league fields. establish the park as a major destination Right: The paths winding through South Park will be ideal for winter activities like cross country skiing. within New York City.
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