Goodhue Park natural area

Brighton Ave. bet. Lafayette Ave. and N. Randall Ave.

Goodhue Park is a 38-acre mixed-use park in Staten Island straddling the Harbor Brook, which flows from a dammed pond through the forest to Allison Pond where it enters a pipe that carries it through the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, before emptying into the Kill Van Kull. While remaining a largely natural area, Goodhue Park has been actively used by the community as an important walking and recreational space since the Goodhue family first opened their 42-acre estate in the 1840s to community use.

From 2019 to 2021, NYC Parks conducted forest restoration within Goodhue Park, including the removal of knotweed, aralia, ailanthus, porcelainberry, and other species that out-compete other plants in the understory, and the planting of more than 1500 new trees and 500 new shrubs.