Shirley Chisholm State Park
Shirley Chisholm State Park is a 407-acre (1.65 km2) state park in southeastern Brooklyn, New York City. It is bound by Belt Parkway and Spring Creek Park to the north and Jamaica Bay to the south, situated atop the former Pennsylvania Avenue and Fountain Avenue Landfills. The first sections of the park opened in 2019.
The Pennsylvania Avenue section of the park in 2019; the Fountain Avenue portion is in the background.
Penn Pier, part of the first phase of the park, in July 2019
The Pennsylvania Avenue Landfill in 2017, prior to the park's establishment
The Fountain Avenue Landfill (pictured in 2019) was developed into the second portion of the park opened in 2021.
Spring Creek Park is a public park along the Jamaica Bay shoreline between the neighborhoods of Howard Beach, Queens, and Spring Creek, Brooklyn, in New York City. Created on landfilled former marshland, the park is mostly an undeveloped nature preserve, with only small portions accessible to the public for recreation.
Spring Creek Park
The fencing closing off the Spring Creek North Preserve, looking from Flatlands Avenue
Inside the Spring Creek water treatment plant in 1974
The cricket field comfort station, completed in July 2013