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Calendar of Events
Events for May 2013
May 02, 2013 (4:30-7:00pm)
Bike Tune-Up Volunteer Night
Concrete Plant Park
Bronx River Alliance's bicycle fleet has been in storage all winter. As we gear up for summer bicycling activities, we're looking for a few volunteers to help dust bikes off, pump up the tires, grease the chains, and make sure things are in good working order. Volunteers with basic bike mechanic skills prefered. If you can change a bike tire, or more, we'd love for you to be there!
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Meet at the shipping container at Concrete Plant Park at 4:30pm, finishing by 7pm.
Volunteers get free pizza dinner, at about 6pm.
Concrete Plant Park is located on the Bronx River between Bruckner Avenue and Westchester Avenue, just east of the Sheridan Expressway. Easy access via the #6 train Whitlock Station.
RSVP and any questions: joe.linton [at] parks.nyc.gov
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May 04, 2013 (10am-2pm)
IT'S MY PARK DAY
Starlight Park
"It's My Park Day"
Starlight Park
May 4th 2013
10am-2pm
FREE, no registration required.
Come join our community & citywide volunteers as they care for trees and lead a clean up effort on the shoreline.
Bring your family & friends or come alone on a bike to volunteer and enjoy the beauty of the Bronx River's newest gem along the Greenway, Starlight Park.
Volunteers will meet by the boat docks by the south entrance of the park at 10am. All tools and materials required will be provided.
Directions to Starlight Park (3 different entrances):
North Entrance: Take 2 or 5 train to West Farms and enter park on 177th Street and Devoe Ave.
Mid Entrance: On the 174th Street Bridge (between Bronx River Ave. and Boone Ave.) there is a staircase that leads into Starlight Park.
South Entrance: Take 6 train to Whitlock Ave. cross Westchester Ave. & walk along the Sheridan Access Road.
Click here to see Starlight Park on Google Maps
For more information or to RSVP contact Joseph.Sanchez@parks.nyc.gov or call 718 430 4665.
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May 10, 2013 (10:30am)
Starlight Park Ribbon-Cutting Grand Opening
Starlight Park
Join Bronx River Alliance, and a plenty of local leaders, elected officials, governmental agencies, a few eels, ducks, geese, and other aquatic creatures - for the official Ribbon-Cutting Grand Opening of the newest Bronx River Greenway Park: Starlight Park!!
NOTE: UPDATED START TIME!! EVENT WILL BE AT 10:30AM (not 11 as previously announced)
Special Add-On: Right after the official ribbon-cutting, join the Bronx River Alliance for a short bicycle tour of the park. The ride will be very easy non-strenuous, just over one mile, showing off the various features of Starlight Park. The Alliance has a very limited supply of bikes to loan out. The park bike tour is a "meeting on the go" supported by a citywide initiative, The Partnership for a Healthier New York City, funded through a Community Transformation Grant (CTG) received by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Bronx Health REACH/Institute for Family Health is the borough lead organization for the Partnership in the Bronx. Please visit and learn more at www.HealthierNYC.org.
Today Starlight Park is 13 acres with just over a half-mile of walk-bike path. It extends from 177th Street to below 174th Street - see basic Starlight Park map here. Enter the park at 177th (at Devoe), 174th (ramps off the bridge) or the north end of Edgewater Road (by the Sheridan Expressway onramp.) For transit and parking directions, see this flier.
Starlight Park is already open (it opened quietly in January) - but there are more great features coming in the future. Additional water and bathrooms will be installed shortly, expected in 2014. Bronx River Alliance will have our new headquarters in a beatiful new ecologically-friendly River House building at Starlight, expected in 2015. And, if that wasn't enough, there's also a planned Starlight Park phase 2 that needs your help. Phase 2 features additional parkland, and three new bridges to connect the greenway east to 172nd Street and south to Westchester Avenue. Help get Starlight's phase 2 built! Read more about the Alliance's Bridge the Gap campaign here, and add your name to the petition here.
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May 11, 2013 (11am-3pm)
The AMAZING FLOTILLA
STARLIGHT PARK
The AMAZING FLOTILLA (full details here)
May 11, 2013
11am-4pm at Starlight Park
Join us as we kick off the paddling season with canoe trips, picnicing, music and a day of festivities at our newly renovated Starlight Park. Introducing our first ever Starlight 5k Canoe Challenge!
Registration required for canoe events.
For further details click here or call our Flotilla hotline at
(718) 430-4636
Free Fun afternoon activities:
- Family Canoeing
- Bike Rentals
- Bird Watching
- Performances
- Community Paddles
- Guided Ramble Tours
Participants for The Amazing Flotilla will gather around the North Entrance on Sheridan Access Rd. & 174th Street.
Directions to 3 Park Entrances:
North Entrance- Take the 2 or 5 train to West Farms Station walk to 177th St & Devoe Ave. (by the Bus Depot) park entrance
Mid Entrance- On the east side of the 174th Street Bridge there is a staircase that leads right into Starlight Park.
South Entrance- Take 6 train to Whitlock Ave cross Westchester Av. & walk along Sheridan Access Rd. to park entrance
Starlight Park Google Map
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May 11, 2013 (10am)
Starlight Park Ramble
Starlight Park
Click here for the flyer.
FREE, no registration required.
Join fellow Bronx River Rambler Stephen Paul DeVillo as we explore both the new Starlight Park and the legendary old Starlight Park. Ramble with us - and check out the festivities at the annual Amazing Bronx River Flotilla!
We’ll hear about a World’s Fair that wasn’t, the Bronx Coliseum that came from Philadelphia, and the lively Starlight Park amusement park, with its unique swimming pool fed by the Bronx River, which hosted everything from boxing and soccer matches to political picnics, even opera and cricket! We’ll see how restoration efforts have reclaimed this once-abandoned patch of the Bronx River, learn about historic submarines on the Bronx River, and hear about the lost New York, Westchester and Boston Railroad that opened 100 years ago this year. Also learn about the Bronx River Alliance's campaign to Bridge the Gap - by building phase 2 of Starlight Park!
Meeting locations:
10am Ramble - meet at West Farms Square Subway Station
#2 or #5 subway West Farms Square Station (at East Tremont Avenue) also reachable by Bx 9, 21, 36, 40 and 42 Buses.
The tour is free, requires no reservations, and will take about 2 hours, so wear comfortable shoes and bring water. For more information call the Bronx River Alliance at 718-430-4665.
(updated: 2 April 2013 - earlier announced afternoon ramble will not take place - join us at 10am!)
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May 18, 2013 (10am)
Upper River Paddle
Shoelace Park
UPPER RIVER PADDLE
$25, registration required.
Canoe through the Bronx River Forest, the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo.
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Directions
Shoelace Park
East 219 St & Bronx Blvd
2/5 train to 219 St
Bx39/Bx28 to 211 St
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May 19, 2013 (9:00am)
Hudson River Greenway to City Island Bike Ride
W. 43rd St and Hudson River Greenway
$20, registration required.
Come along for a guided bike tour from Manhattan to City Island with the East Coast Greenway Alliance. For more information and to register, visit http://ecgny2013.eventbrite.com.
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May 25, 2013 (9:30am)
Estuary Canoe Trip
Concrete Plant Park
Estuary Canoe Trip
$25, registration required.
Encounter saltwater marshes and wildlife that thrive in the tides as you pladdle the saltwater section of the Bronx River.
Directions
Concrete Plant Park
Bronx River (between Westchester Ave & Bruckner Blvd)
6 train to Whitlock Ave
2/5 train to Freeman St
Bx4/Bx27 to Whitlock Ave
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May 25, 2013 (12pm)
Community Rowing with Rocking the Boat
Hunts Point Riverside Park
COMMUNITY ROWING
FREE, no registration required.
Explore the river in one of Rocking the Boat's handmade wooden row boats.
For more info, visit www.rockingtheboat.org.
Directions
Hunts Point Riverside Park
Lafayette Ave (between Edgewater Rd & the Bronx River)
6 train to Hunts Point Ave
Bx39 to Spofford Ave
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