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Next month’s Amazing Bronx River Flotilla will end up at the spectacular new Concrete Plant Park on the Bronx River between Bruckner Boulevard and Westchester

During September of 1895 the city was gripped by near record heat with temperatures in the low 90’s. Jeremiah Murphy was a postal clerk at

A century after the depredations of Delancey’s Refugees, the Bronx River became the childhood home of an altogether different kind of cowboy. Born in Newburgh,

The word “cowboy” brings to mind images of the Wild West, but the first cowboys splashed across the Bronx River – and they were not

Another redoubtable Bronx River woman was a contemporary of Aunt Sarah Titus, Ann Hanson of West Farms.   The old Bronx River town of West

In the course of its history the Bronx River has known several redoubtable women, but few proved to be as unmoving as Sarah Titus.  

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