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Major milestones of the Bronx River restoration from 1970 to present
Before the Bronx was a borough, a Swede named Jonas Bronck (one of the first European settlers in the area) owned a farm next to a river. It was called “Bronck’s river” and later shortened to “Bronx River.”
For millennia before that, the river was called Aquahung, or “river of high bluffs” by the Lenape nation who fished and lived alongside its waters.
These waters once ran silver in the spring as alewife herring made their way back to their home river to spawn. Sadly, these waters were fouled and disregarded over time. However over the past 50 years, our communities have worked hard to restore these waters to life.
This is the story of how a we brought back our urban river.
Over 20 years we’ve accomplished a lot!
Anticipated completion: 2021
$3.65M
Anticipated completion: 2022
$3.215 M
Anticipated completion: 2022
$35M
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.