Programs

Assist NYC Parks Department staff with weeding and general landscape work along the New Springville Greenway, Staten Island’s new bike and fitness path. This event is a partnership with the Office of Senator Lanza and the Office of Michael Cusick.

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Learn about how volunteers made a big difference at Freshkills Park’s events and programs in 2016. Enjoy conversations with park staff and fellow volunteers and get an exclusive look at upcoming projects.

Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. Those interested in volunteering are strongly encouraged to attend.

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Run a 5k or USA Track & Field certified 10k course through normally closed sections of Freshkills Park with Staten Island Athletic Club (SIAC)....MORE

Photographers are invited to tour closed sections of the landfill-to-park project and document the engineered landscape's evolution. ...MORE

Artists have engaged the changing landscape at Freshkills for decades. The Department of Sanitation Artist-in-Residence, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, will discuss her pioneering 30+ year residency with the city agency and the evolving landfill-to-landscape at Freshkills with Mariel Villere (Freshkills Park Manager for Programs, Arts and Grants).

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Join the Freshkills Park Team and Kayak Staten Island for a kayaking experience like no other! ...MORE

Volunteer at Freshkills Park’s Discovery Day Event Sunday September 18 and receive a free t-shirt and lunch....MORE

Bike the Greenbelt’s Multipurpose Trail and Freshkills Park's New Springville Greenway!...MORE

Explore the normally closed Freshkills Park on September 18th. Discover the unique experience and views the park has to offer at this free event....MORE

Experience the parks of the future with IrisVR and the latest in virtual reality technology. Learn about the tools and take a virtual tour of several projects in process by leading landscape architecture firms alongside the Landscape in Motion exhibition of Freshkills Park’s complex history and ecology at the Staten Island Arts Culture Lounge.

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Join us on this meditative nature walk through Freshkills Park North Park with Venerable Thupten Phuntsok and artist Tattfoo Tan. Meditation is the practice of calming one’s mind and focusing on one point. In a walking meditation, the walk is the focus.

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Join us for “The Altered Landscape,” a talk by photographer, curator, and deputy director of photography at TIME Paul Moakley on the history of the human-altered landscape through photographs from 1960-present. The talk will be an inspirational survey about landscape photography starting with the New Topographic’s school of Photographers.

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Cross-disciplinary artist Catalina Jordan Alvarez and discard studies scholar Julia Corwin will orchestrate an interpretive walking tour at Freshkills Park. ...MORE

Visit Freshkills Park for a Make Music New York performance on the longest day of the year. As part of Make Music New York, Freshkills Park is taking part in Inside the Bird Chorus, a project conceived by the philosopher and artist David Rothenberg as a dialogue between musicians and bird populations of New York City....MORE

This photography tour is a special opportunity to photograph what was once the world’s largest landfill as it is transforming into a 2,200-acre park and cultural destination. Images taken on this tour and between May 15 and June 26 can be submitted to "A Fresh Look," a photography contest with the Staten Island Advance....MORE

This photography tour is a special opportunity to photograph what was once the world’s largest landfill as it is transforming into a 2,200-acre park and cultural destination. Images taken on this tour and between May 15 and June 26 can be submitted to "A Fresh Look," a photography contest with the Staten Island Advance....MORE

Join the Freshkills Park Team and Kayak Staten Island for a kayaking experience like no other! ...MORE

The group will meet at Schmul Playground (at the corner Wild Avenue and Melvin Avenue) and take a shuttle into Freshkills Park from there....MORE

The group will meet at Schmul Playground (at the corner Wild Avenue and Melvin Avenue) and take a shuttle into Freshkills Park from there....MORE

From wetlands to woodlands to rich, rolling grasslands, Freshkills Park offers a diverse collection of habitats and wildlife. Join local naturalist Cliff Hagen and the NYC Parks Department on this special opportunity to explore the deep, secret places of the City's latest, greatest park....MORE