Hunts Point Riverside Park is a riverside park located in the Hunts Point

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in the

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section of

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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.Cynthia E. Rockwell, "Breaking the Grip of Poverty", ''Wesleyan'' (

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alumni magazine), Issue IV 2006, 33–37. p. 34–35. Ground was broken July 19, 2004, on a

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3.2 million project to convert a vacant lot used as an

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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

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era bridge project.

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spearheaded the development of this park. Hunts Point Riverside Park was the 2009 Silver Medalist of the

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Parks in the Bronx Hunts Point, Bronx {{Bronx-geo-stub

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