NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF PARKS & RECREATION Freshkills Park Landscape Restoration Staten Island, New York

The transformation of what was formerly the world’s largest landfill into a series of ecologically productive landscapes is a major step in restoring ecological integrity to Staten Island.

t 2,200 acres - almost and control of invasive species. Athree times the size of Other design contributions Central Park - New York’s included innovative stormwater

James Corner Field Operations Freshkills Park will be one practices utilizing native vegeta- of the most ambitious public tion for the planned network works projects in the world, of roads that run through and combining state-of-the-art around the site. ecological restoration tech- niques with extraordinary The Biohabitats team also per- settings for recreation, public formed natural resource assess- art, and facilities for many ments of the North and South sports and programs that are Parks, developed ecological unusual in a city. While nearly schematic designs for North forty-five percent of the site Park, and created strategies for James Corner Field Operations was once used as a landfill, the native community restoration remainder of the site is cur- and soils management. rently composed of wetlands, open waterways, and unfilled Biohabitats’ ecological lowland areas. restoration efforts also emphasized the restoration As part of a multi-disciplinary of stream, shorelines, and re- team, Biohabitats led the ecologi- gionally important freshwater cal components of the project. and tidal wetlands. The many facets covered includ- ed soils standards and specifica- SERVICES tions, restoration of native and Inventory & Assessments indigenous plant communities, Design

conservation planning ecological restoration regenerative design

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