The First Canoes on the Bronx
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
07/24/2009
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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
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
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.