Hybrid Oak Woods Park, Tottenville Staten Island
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The South Shore of Staten Island is well-known for having acres upon acres of wetlands. With all of the housing developments that had taken place in the twentieth century, these wetland areas began to disappear. In 1994, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation created a Natural Resources Damages Program known as the Jamaica Bay Damages Account. This program was created in an attempt to restore, replace, or acquire wetland areas that had been affected "as a result of a release of hazardous substances from five landfills within New York City",
Brookfield Landfill being the one in Staten Island. In the five boroughs, there were eighty-two project proposals proposed for the program.
Of the eighty-two projects proposed, eight had…
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Hopping Avenue. It runs from Hopping Street to the Raritan Bay and is between Patten Street and Arthur Kill Road. The other two sections of Tottenville Shore Park are divided by Bentley Street and bordered by the Raritan Bay. The first of these two is right on the water and has Arthur Kill Road as a third border. The second of these two is a smaller patch of land which is bordered on its remaining sides by houses.
giving the neighborhood the name of Tottenville. First of all, the post office served the neighborhood. Second of all, the Totten family had grown to be quite prominent on Staten Island.
July of 1902. In 1901, the school reopened at another location on Rossville Avenue. This building was known as Old P.S. 6. In December of 1945, the Board of Education decided that the school building was unfit to be used as an elementary school and was closed. After it was closed, the Marimac Novelty Company used the building as a factory. Finally, after some time, the school reopened for a third time in September of…
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