Silver Lake, Staten Island
Silver Lake is a reservoir and adjacent neighborhood in the New York City borough of Staten Island.
Silver Lake is a reservoir and adjacent neighborhood in the New York City borough of Staten Island.
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Worth seeing in and around Silver Lake, Staten Island
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island, part of New York City, in New York Harbor. The copper-clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and its metal framework built by Gustave Eiffel.
8.3 km · monument in New York · Wikipedia - 02Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
The Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, New York, U.S. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the relatively enclosed New York Harbor with Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only fixed crossing of the Narrows.
4.7 km · bridge in New York City · Wikipedia - 03Bayonne Bridge
The Bayonne Bridge is a steel through arch bridge that spans the Kill Van Kull between Staten Island, New York, and Bayonne, New Jersey, United States. It carries New York State Route 440 and New Jersey Route 440, with the two roads connecting at the state border at the river’s center.
4.3 km · arch bridge connecting Staten Island, NY with Bayonne, NJ · Wikipedia - 04Fresh Kills Landfill
The Fresh Kills Landfill was a landfill covering 2,200 acres in the borough of Staten Island in New York City, United States. The name comes from the landfill's location along the banks of the Fresh Kills estuary in western Staten Island.
9.4 km · landfill site · Wikipedia - 05To the Struggle Against World Terrorism
To the Struggle Against World Terrorism is a 10–story sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli that was given to the United States as an official gift from the Russian government as a memorial to the victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. It stands at the end of the former Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey.
4.8 km · sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli · Wikipedia - 06Todt Hill
Todt Hill is a 401-foot-tall hill formed of serpentine rock on Staten Island, New York. It is the highest natural point in the five boroughs of New York City and the highest elevation on the entire Atlantic coastal plain from Florida to Cape Cod.
2.9 km · mountain · Wikipedia - 07Statue of Liberty National Monument
The Statue of Liberty National Monument is a United States national monument comprising Liberty Island and Ellis Island in the states of New Jersey and New York. It includes the 1886 Statue of Liberty by sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and the Statue of Liberty Museum, both situated on Liberty Island, as well as the former immigration station at Ellis Island, which includes the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital.
8.9 km · United States national monument · Wikipedia - 08Gowanus Canal
The Gowanus Canal is a 1.8-mile-long canal in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the westernmost portion of Long Island. Once a vital cargo transportation hub, the canal has seen decreasing use since the mid-20th century as domestic shipping declined.
10 km · canal in Brooklyn, New York City · Wikipedia - 09Staten Island Museum
Staten Island Museum is Staten Island’s oldest cultural institution, and the only remaining general interest museum in New York City. Founded in 1881 by fourteen of New York City’s first “environmental activists”, the Staten Island Museum houses artifacts and specimens from ancient to contemporary periods.
2.6 km · museum in Staten Island, New York · Wikipedia - 10Castle Williams
Castle Williams is a circular fortification of red sandstone on the northwest point of Governors Island, part of a system of forts designed and constructed in the early 19th century to protect New York City from naval attack. It is a prominent landmark in New York Harbor.
9.9 km · fort · Wikipedia
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Getting to Silver Lake, Staten Island
- Airports
- Newark Liberty (EWR), 10 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 25 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 27 km
- Stations
- Ellis Island, 9.5 km · Newark Liberty International Airport, 9.7 km · New York Harbor, 6.4 km · Port of New York and New Jersey, 6.4 km · 25th Avenue, 9.7 km
- Philadelphia → Silver Lake, Staten Island124 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · $12–16
- Hartford → Silver Lake, Staten Island166 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · $16–22
- Albany → Silver Lake, Staten Island211 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · $18–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Silver Lake, Staten Island
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Silver Lake, Staten Island. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inNY Waterway operates four ferry routes connecting Jersey City to Manhattan.
- Get inThe other two ferry routes leave from Exchange Place, and connect to World Financial Center and West 39th Street in Midtown.
- Get aroundThe Via fleet of minivans and SUVs holds multiple passengers and offers wheelchair accessible rides.
- Get aroundOff road shared use trails can be found along the Hudson River waterfront and in Liberty State Park.
- Get aroundThe East Coast Greenway, a bike path that runs from Maine to Florida, cuts through Jersey City from Newark, eastward through Lincoln Park and city streets, to the ferries and to the riverfront walkway running north.
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Next door to Silver Lake, Staten Island
Silver Lake, Staten Island is 8 km from Staten Island, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Staten Islandborough of New York City, New York, United States of America7.3 km
- Jersey Citycity in New Jersey, United States9.9 km
- The Narrowsstrait in New York City, USA4.2 km
- Bensonhurstneighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States8.3 km
- Red Hookneighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City9.1 km
- Borough Parkneighborhood in New York City8.7 km