Hunts Point Riverside Park is a riverside park located in the
Hunts Point neighborhood in the
South Bronx section of
New York City
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. It is the first new riverside park to be built in the area in over sixty years, and is the first of a planned series of parks to be linked by a bike route to create the
South Bronx Greenway
The South Bronx Greenway is a project to improve waterfront access, recreational facilities, and transportation systems, including pedestrian and bicycle paths, in the South Bronx in New York City.
Early planning
The project was first envisio ...
.
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alumni magazine), Issue IV 2006, 33–37. p. 34–35.
Ground was broken July 19, 2004, on a
US$
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3.2 million project to convert a vacant lot used as an
illegal dumping
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ground into a park.
Before the planned park project, the site was an abandoned lot that was once part of a defunct
Robert Moses era bridge project.
The POINT Community Development Corporation
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's
Majora Carter
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spearheaded the development of this park.
Hunts Point Riverside Park was the 2009 Silver Medalist of the
Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence
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See also
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South Bronx Greenway
The South Bronx Greenway is a project to improve waterfront access, recreational facilities, and transportation systems, including pedestrian and bicycle paths, in the South Bronx in New York City.
Early planning
The project was first envisio ...
*
Barretto Point Park
Barretto Point Park is a waterfront public park on the East River located in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx. New York City. Its namesake is Francis J. Barretto, a 19th-century merchant and State Assemblyman who lived in the area.
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References
Parks in the Bronx
Hunts Point, Bronx
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