Hunt's Point Riverside Park
- Hunt's Point Riverside Park
Hunt's Point Riverside Park is the first new riverside park in the South Bronx, New York City in over sixty years, the first of a planned series of parks to be linked by a bike route, the South Bronx Greenway.[Cynthia E. Rockwell, "Breaking the Grip of Poverty", "Wesleyan" (Wesleyan University alumni magazine), Issue IV 2006, 33–37. p. 34–35.] Ground was broken July 19, 2004 on a US$3.2 million project to convert a vacant lot used as in illegal dumping ground into a 1.4 acre park. [ [http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2004b%2Fpr200-04.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1 Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg breaks ground on $3.2 million construction of Hunt's Point Riverside Park] , News from the Blue Room (mayoralty of NYC press release) #PR- 200-04, July 19, 2004 Accessed online 6 March 2007.] ]The park project was spearheaded by Majora Carter of Sustainable South Bronx, who discovered the site—abandoned as part of a defunct Robert Moses-era bridge project—when walking her dog.
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