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35-567: Richmond Avenue begins at Tennyson Drive and Crescent Beach Park bordering Raritan Bay . Hylan Boulevard is the first major intersection, 0.2 miles (0.32 km) to the north. After intersecting Amboy Road and then crossing under the Staten Island Railway , Richmond Avenue continues north to Arthur Kill Road . A tenth of a mile later, the avenue intersects with the end of Korean War Veterans Parkway (formerly Richmond Parkway). Richmond Avenue then crosses over Richmond Creek on

70-402: A landscape dominated by spruce and pine forests. These forests gradually gave way to the modern deciduous forest in the region by mid- Holocene time. Lagoons and bays in the area around Sandy Hook hosted oysters, hard and soft shell clams, lobsters, blue crabs, and a variety of other invertebrates common in bays in the region today. South of western Long Island, tidal flats and wetlands occupied

105-541: A report was released, and Monmouth County was asked to vote to have the county planning board approve the plan the Bayshore organization has created. This plan has since been replaced by the 2016 Monmouth County Master Plan , an effort to beautify, maintain, and revitalize Monmouth County. The new master plan combined four separate regional plans within the county to create one large master plan, fully taking into consideration what each plan had to offer. Sandy Hook Bay

140-471: A road that parallels the expressway, then begins to the left. It intersects Forest Avenue 0.8 miles (1.3 km) north, where the median divider of Richmond Avenue ends. This is the northern terminus of Richmond Avenue as a major two-way street. North of Forest Avenue, most traffic continues north to Richmond Terrace via Morningstar Road, while Richmond Avenue diverges to the east as a narrow one-way residential street. Richmond Avenue ends at Willow Road West,

175-795: A service road for NY Route 440 , two blocks east of Morningstar Road. The road is one of the older ones on Staten Island, presumably dating back to the early-to-mid-19th century. Early writings and periodicals refer to Richmond Avenue as the road from Port Richmond to New Springville , just north of the Fresh Kills . Sections of road along what is currently Richmond Avenue were known by various names, such as Old Stone Road and Church Road (in Port Richmond), Bridge Avenue (south to Arthur Kill Road), Eltingville Road (continuing south to Amboy Road), and Seaside Avenue (the final section). In 1912, they were all consolidated as "Richmond Avenue". In 1964,

210-669: A trip that take approximately 40 minutes. SeaStreak routes connect the towns of Atlantic Highlands and Highlands to the East River at Pier 11 at Wall Street and East 34th Street Ferry Landing in New York City . The Belford ferry slip Raritan Bayshore terminal with service to Paulus Hook Ferry Terminal in Jersey City and Wall Street -Pier 11 and West Midtown Ferry Terminal in New York City . From Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend, service

245-588: Is a traditional amusement park while at Sandy Hook are found ocean beaches. The Sadowski Parkway beach area in Perth Amboy , which lies at the mouth of the Raritan River , was deemed the " Riviera of New Jersey" by local government. In recent years many of the beaches on the Bayshore area have been rediscovered and upgraded. In September 1609, the Halve Maen (Dutch for Half Moon), anchored along

280-752: Is a triangular arm of the Raritan Bay , along the coast of northern New Jersey in the United States . It is formed along the south side of the Lower New York Bay by Sandy Hook , a spit of land that protects the bay from the open Atlantic Ocean . The bay provides a sheltered marina for pleasure craft, as well as a harbor for the United States Coast Guard . It is fed by the Shrewsbury River estuary . It

315-647: Is bounded on the west side by the Naval Weapons Station Earle pier. The Henry Hudson Trail is a bicycling and hiking rail trail which runs parallel to the southern shore of Raritan Bay and connects the Bayshore communities to inland sections of Monmouth County. The trail starts in Freehold Borough and ends at Highlands , with missing links in Atlantic Highlands, Aberdeen/Matawan, and Marlboro . The Bayshore area

350-670: Is mostly flat areas of beach, with the exception of the hills between the Navesink River and the Sandy Hook Bay . Mount Mitchill , a 266-foot (81 m) hill in Atlantic Highlands , is the highest. To the east of Mount Mitchill are the Twin Lights Lighthouse of Highlands , with unobstructed views of Sandy Hook and the New York City skyline. Hartshorne Woods Park is also located in

385-533: Is the area around Raritan Bay from The Amboys to Sandy Hook , in Middlesex and Monmouth counties, including the towns of Perth Amboy , South Amboy , Sayreville , Old Bridge , Matawan , Aberdeen , Keyport , Union Beach , Hazlet , Keansburg , Middletown , Atlantic Highlands , and Highlands . It is the northernmost part of the Jersey Shore , located just south of New York City . At Keansburg

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420-538: The East Keansburg , Port Monmouth , Belford , and Leonardo sections of Middletown . There are also non-commercial boardwalks in Perth Amboy and Keansburg . Because many of the towns date back to the 17th and 18th century, as well as the important naval history in the area, there are numerous historical locations throughout the Bayshore area. Historical attractions include Fort Hancock in Sandy Hook,

455-467: The Monmouth Hills to the south on the banks of the Navesink River . The Gateway National Recreation Area Sandy Hook Unit on the barrier peninsula includes two park sites: The New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route and Cheesequake State Park are also here. Ferries to New York City and Exchange Place travel across the Lower New York Bay and enter the harbor at The Narrows ,

490-737: The Revolutionary War and the British retreat to Sandy Hook from the Battle of Monmouth . The Bayshore Regional Strategic Plan was an effort by nine municipalities in northern Monmouth County , New Jersey to reinvigorate the area's economy, especially along the Route 36 corridor along the Sandy Hook Bay . Municipalities participating in the effort were Aberdeen , Atlantic Highlands , Hazlet , Highlands , Keansburg , Keyport , Matawan , Middletown and Union Beach . In August 2006

525-1325: The Twin Lights State Historic Site in Highlands, the Strauss Mansion in Atlantic Highlands, Portland Place and the Taylor-Butler House in Middletown, Longstreet Farm in Holmdel, the Burrowes Mansion in Matawan, the Thomas Warne Museum in Old Bridge, and the Kearny Cottage Museum, the Perth Amboy Ferry Slip , and Proprietary House in Perth Amboy. Additionally, there are various historical markers and sites from these early time periods, especially several from

560-547: The West Shore Expressway was completed in 1976. Richmond Avenue is served by the following bus routes: The entire route is in the New York City borough of Staten Island .  Raritan Bay Raritan Bay is a bay located at the southern portion of Lower New York Bay between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey and is part of the New York Bight . The bay is bounded on

595-463: The blue crab , fiddler crab , green crab , horseshoe crab and spider crab . Clams and mussels also live in Raritan Bay. The bay is a popular destination for recreational fishing due to its proximity to the densely populated areas of Central Jersey and New York City . Raritan Bayshore The Raritan Bayshore is a region in central sections in the state of New Jersey . It

630-489: The 17th century. Archeological evidence suggests that humans were already in the region at the close of the Pleistocene . The early "Big Game Hunters" vanished, but the coastal regions were resettled by peoples accustomed to village-style living ("tidewater communities") that subsisted on hunting and gathering marine shellfish, and eventually, on agriculture. In pre-Columbian times "woodlands cultures" probably centered in

665-768: The Fresh Kills Bridge, gains a median divider, and passes between the Staten Island Mall and Freshkills Park . Richmond Avenue intersects Rockland Avenue and Draper Place in New Springville before traveling along the edge of Willowbrook Park . Richmond Avenue continues north to the intersection with Victory Boulevard . Richmond Avenue intersects Lamberts Lane, a road with access to the Brooklyn-bound Staten Island Expressway (I-278). Goethals Road North,

700-575: The Ohio Valley became the dominant cultural influence in the region. Large shell middens were found around Raritan Bay and on Staten Island, a testament of the utilization of the bay for food by Algonquin Indian tribes (Lenapes) who occupied the area when early Colonialists arrived. Early settlers used these shell piles for road construction and field fertilizer. Tottenville was once well known for its roads paved with oyster shells. The Raritan River

735-507: The bay. For most of the 20th century, the shores of Arthur Kill have been home to the largest petroleum importing, refining, and storage facilities on Earth; as a consequence the estuary has been host to major and minor oil spills. In addition, Arthur Kill drains the area encompassing the second largest landfill on Earth ( Fresh Kills Landfill ). This landfill, and others along the Raritan River, provide an ample supply of leachate to

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770-496: The bay. The peak of the fishing industry occurred in the late 1880s to 1910s. Fishing and farming slowly gave way to industries including ship building, ceramics, chemicals and paint manufacturing, electrolytic copper refining, and petroleum refining. In the Keasbey, New Jersey area, large pits were dug to extract the clays for ceramics and bricks, and huge chemical dumps, fly ash piles, and landfills were created to accommodate

805-497: The coast since colonial times. The bay supported a lucrative fishing and shellfish industry during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially oysters , which helped to support a stable population around the bay and aided, in part, to feed the flood of immigration. Stable communities continued to grow and change with new industries supporting a larger population base. Advances in methods of fishing and shellfish collecting resulted in overextraction of these resources from

840-586: The construction of the Willowbrook Expressway divided Richmond Avenue into two sections, the northern segment being later renamed Port Richmond Avenue. In the 1920s and 1930s, most of Richmond Avenue, particularly south of Victory Boulevard , was predominantly farmland. The road itself was merely one-lane wide. However, indicative of the economic transformation the Richmond Avenue corridor of Staten Island experienced, specifically with

875-511: The fish catch and prompted government recommendations against its routine consumption. The bay is crossed by a dredged channel allowing commercial ships to enter the Arthur Kill. Raritan Bay's fish include striped bass , fluke , winter flounder , bluefish , porgy , black sea bass , smoothhound shark , northern puffer , northern king fish , oyster toadfish , tautog and weakfish . The crustacean species represented include

910-803: The lowstand in sea level caused by the Wisconsin glacier, the Raritan River carved back into its headlands and captured the major drainages from the Newark Basin . As the Wisconsin glaciers melted, the Flandrian Transgression eventually flooded the deeper valleys of the Hudson , Raritan, and Arthur Kill. During warming at the end of the Pleistocene and Early Holocene , the area encompassing Raritan Bay changed from tundra to

945-401: The margins of a tidal estuary (now submerged by marine waters). Inner Raritan Bay began to fill about 2,500 years ago with large oyster beds forming along the estuarine tributaries. Sea level continued to rise about one foot per century. This rise in sea level has resulted in the landward migration of the shoreline (aided by storm-induced coastal erosion ) as much as two miles in some portions of

980-647: The name. Popular attractions in the Bayshore area include Keansburg Amusement Park and Runaway Rapids Waterpark in Keansburg , Mount Mitchill in Atlantic Highlands , and Longstreet Farm in Holmdel . There are also beaches and waterfronts in both of The Amboys , the Laurence Harbor section of Old Bridge , the Cliffwood Beach section of Aberdeen , Keyport , Union Beach , Keansburg , and

1015-670: The northwest by New York's Staten Island , on the west by Perth Amboy, New Jersey , on the south by the Raritan Bayshore communities in the New Jersey counties of Middlesex and Monmouth , and on the east by Sandy Hook Bay . The bay is named after the Raritans , a branch of the Lenape tribe who lived in the vicinity of the bay and its river for thousands of years, prior to the arrival of Dutch and English colonists in

1050-415: The opening of the Staten Island Mall in 1972, the roadway was widened. The roadway from Rockland Avenue to Forest Hill Road has been widened to an eight-lane thoroughfare (four lanes each way), while other sections are two and three lanes wide. Prior to the construction of any expressway on Staten Island, Richmond Avenue, north of Drumgoole Boulevard, was designated New York Route 440, which it held until

1085-572: The shores of the Raritan Bay, and remained for five days to explore the estuary and establish contact with local Lenape people (who later become known as the Navesink and Raritan ). Four his crew were sent up the Arthur Kill and to Newark Bay . Upon their return they were attacked and one of them, John Colman was fatally shot by arrow. Taken ashore to be buried, the spot was christened Coleman's Point. The location Keansburg still bears

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1120-503: The waste from the growing industrial empire. The building of shore management structures (dikes, groins, seawalls), the spraying of DDT (and other pesticides ) to control the mosquito problem, the carving of ditches to drain wetlands, the filling of shore lowlands, the channelization of creeks, highway and sewer construction, neighborhood development, and a myriad point and non-point sources of household, automobile, industrial chemicals, and ocean dumping all contributed to growing toxicity of

1155-440: The waterways. Chemical wastes cause stress and disruption of the life cycles of plankton, shellfish and other invertebrates, and the fish, birds, and other wildlife that they support. The result was an ecological disaster. The bay approached sterile conditions at the peak of pollution and algal bloom-induced anoxia. Environmental actions from the 1970s to present have helped slowly bring back sea life, but current conditions pale to

1190-515: The wealth of marine resources of the past; certain species of fish and birds continue to decline, and the introduction of tenacious exotic species from around the world contribute to their decline. As a sign of optimism though, oysters are beginning to naturally reappear in the Hudson River after having vanished completely about the time of World War II . Regional industrial overdevelopment and other pollution factors have raised PCB levels in

1225-667: Was perhaps the major drainage channel along the ice front throughout the Wisconsin glaciation (Stages 1, 2, 3 and 4). Prior to that time the region drained southward across the saddle between the Atlantic Highlands and the Newark Basin into the Delaware River Valley. This saddle area is a very broad flood plain that preserves river terrace gravels ( Pensauken Formation ) from the Sangemon Interglacial State (Stage 5), as well as older Pleistocene fluvial deposits ( Bridgetown Formation ). During

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