Great Kills
Beaches and salt marsh at Great Kills Park (Gateway National Recreation Area)
The read Great Kills in short
Great Kills is a South Shore neighborhood built around Great Kills Park, 580 acres of beach, salt marsh, and woodland run by the National Park Service as part of Gateway National Recreation Area since 1973. The name is Dutch — a "kil" was a creek or channel — and the sheltered harbor those channels formed sustained an oystering and fishing village here through the 19th century; marinas and yacht clubs have lined Great Kills Harbor since the 1920s, with the sandy spit of Crooke's Point, named for the naturalist John J. Crooke who once lived on it, closing the harbor's mouth inside the park. The Staten Island Railway's Great Kills station runs express to St. George at rush hour.
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