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While we’ve hailed the return of native wildlife to the Bronx River in recent years, we might want to pause and salute one of the

2009 marks the bicentennial of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most prominent writers who found inspiration along the Bronx River. In

The birch bark canoe is closely associated with the popular image of the Native Americans, and it lent its classic form to the polypropylene craft

Hunts Point Riverside Park was recently the scene of the festive launch of the Water Penny into the Bronx River.  Built by the students and

One of the Bronx River’s vanished freshwater wetlands was the Bear Swamp.Draining into the Bronx River about where the Bronx Zoo’s Boston Road entrance is

The original Bronx River Parkway won renown as an innovative roadway design when it was completed in 1925, but the Bronx River may have been

Gather my children and you will hear … about the other ride of Paul Revere.Not the one on the 19th of April in ’75 celebrated

The Bronx River neighborhood of Van Nest has the distinction of having had more nicknames than perhaps any other Bronx community, and not all of

Back in the days before refrigeration was invented, people got their ice the old fashioned way:they’d wait for a local lake or pond to freeze

One of the more flamboyant episodes in Bronx River history took place 230 years ago this month. During the Revolutionary War much of the present-day