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The Rocking Stone
The most spectacular glacial erratic in the Bronx River valley is the Rocking Stone in the Bronx Zoo.Ten feet wide, over seven feet high and
01/17/2009
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The most spectacular glacial erratic in the Bronx River valley is the Rocking Stone in the Bronx Zoo.Ten feet wide, over seven feet high and
Another famous glacial erratic lay about a mile west of the Bronx River at 166th Street and the Boston Post Road.An immense loaf-shaped boulder of
People often wonder why the Bronx, alone of all New York’s boroughs, has “the” as part of its name. It’s because the borough is named
One of the most interesting things about local folklore is that you sometimes find in it buried memories of past history.An example of this is
Over the many years of restoration work, lots of curious objects have been pulled out of the Bronx River, and sometimes they pose a real
Old Scrooge wasn’t the only beaver to bedevil the zookeepers along the Bronx River: he was preceded in his role of chief troublemaker by Big
While we are careful to specify that no “wild” beavers have been seen on the Bronx River since the end of the 1700s, beavers have
Jonas the Peacemaker Jonas Bronck, who gave his name to the Bronx River, was also a man of peace who sought to reconcile a festering
Beaver Tales Impressed with the beaver’s aquatic engineering skills, the Algonquin peoples called them “the Old Wise Ones.”It was believed that the beaver had once
The Bronx River Alliance serves as a coordinated voice for the river and works in harmonious partnership to protect, improve and restore the Bronx River corridor so that it can be a healthy ecological, recreational, educational and economic resource for the communities through which the river flows.
The Alliance works in close partnership with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and with over one hundred other partners to reclaim the Bronx River.