Hunt's Point Riverside Park

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Majora Carter, founder of the Hunt's Point Riverside Park.
Majora Carter, founder of the Hunt's Point Riverside Park.


Hunt's Point Riverside Park is the first new riverside park in the South Bronx, New York City in over sixty years, the first of a planned series of parks to be linked by a bike route, the South Bronx Greenway.[1] Ground was broken July 19, 2004 on a US$3.2 million project to convert a vacant lot used as in illegal dumping ground into a 1.4 acre park.[2]

The park project was spearheaded by Majora Carter of Sustainable South Bronx, who discovered the site—abandoned as part of a defunct Robert Moses-era bridge project—when walking her dog.[1]


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  1. ^ a b Cynthia E. Rockwell, "Breaking the Grip of Poverty", Wesleyan (Wesleyan University alumni magazine), Issue IV 2006, 33–37. p. 34–35.
  2. ^ Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg breaks ground on $3.2 million construction of Hunt's Point Riverside Park, News from the Blue Room (mayoralty of NYC press release) #PR- 200-04, July 19, 2004 Accessed online 6 March 2007.
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