Clove Lakes Park

Clove Lakes Park is a

public park in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City.^[1]

Clove Lakes Park has a rich natural history with valuable ecological assets and a few remnants of the past. Chief among them are the park's lakes and ponds, outcroppings of

eastern painted turtle, red-eared slider, and occasionally even the red-backed salamander. The park is also home to mammals such as eastern gray squirrel, muskrat, eastern cottontail, and eastern chipmunk

.

The park is known for its cozy picnic accommodations and boating.

borough

headquarters of the city's Department of Parks and Recreation.

The park consists of three lakes: the main one is Clove Lake, which runs off to Martling Lake, and then to Brooks Lake.

The Staten Island Expressway, part of Interstate 278, built in 1964, goes through a cleft just south of the park, connecting the then newly-built Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in the east with the Goethals Bridge in the west. When first proposed, the expressway was to be named the Clove Lake Expressway.

References

^ "Clove Lakes Park of Staten Island, NYC". Archived from the original on 2011-08-15. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
^ Crewdson, Michael; Mittelbach, Margaret (November 10, 2000). "A Rendezvous With 2 Giants". The New York Times. Retrieved October 2, 2016.
^ "Clove Lakes Park Paddleboat Rentals : NYC Parks".

External links

Official website, NYC Parks
Park history, NYC Parks

40°37′10″N 74°06′50″W / 40.61944°N 74.11389°W / 40.61944; -74.11389

[1] "Clove Lakes Park of Staten Island, NYC". Archived from the original on 2011-08-15. Retrieved 2011-10-14.

[Giants-2] Crewdson, Michael; Mittelbach, Margaret (November 10, 2000). "A Rendezvous With 2 Giants". The New York Times. Retrieved October 2, 2016.

[3] "Clove Lakes Park Paddleboat Rentals : NYC Parks".

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