Carte topographique Washington Heights

Altitude moyenne : 17 m

The initial plan was to raise the elevation of the land by filling for three years and then to redevelop it as a multi-use area with residential, recreational, and industrial components. However, three years turned into fifty years. New York City's population was growing and generating more trash and it was…

Altitude moyenne : 11 m

Altitude moyenne : 0 m

Altitude moyenne : 16 m

Around 1907, contractor Michael Degnon, whose firm constructed the Williamsburg Bridge, the Cape Cod Canal, and the Steinway subway tunnel (used by today's 7 and <7>​ trains), purchased large tracts of marsh near Flushing Creek. At the time, the land was considered "all but worthless". Degnon envisioned…

Altitude moyenne : 15 m

Altitude moyenne : 1 m

Kissena Park's natural features were formed during the Wisconsin glaciation, about 20,000 years ago. The site of Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, slightly west of Kissena Park, was originally part of the ancestral path of the Hudson River, and the present-day Kissena Lake was located on the eastern shore of the…

Altitude moyenne : 16 m

Altitude moyenne : 25 m

Altitude moyenne : 2 m

Altitude moyenne : 35 m

Altitude moyenne : 30 m

Altitude moyenne : 18 m

Altitude moyenne : 8 m

Altitude moyenne : 9 m

Altitude moyenne : 11 m

Altitude moyenne : 13 m

Altitude moyenne : 9 m

Altitude moyenne : 22 m