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The Bronx River Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to improving, restoring, and protecting the Bronx River.
Your contribution is fully tax-deductible. Your support means everything to our work to restore our beautiful river - thank you!
Donate today.
We can also use your talent, energy, and enthusiasm to do what it takes to restore the river and enable it to be a true resource for the Bronx. Find out more about ways to
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Our Bronx River Conservation Crew, in collaboration with Alliance partners, maintains a full-time presence on the river, monitoring river conditions and doing ecological restoration projects that improve water quality, stabilize the riverbanks and improve river habitat. Weekly, the Crew, a full-time force of ~10 staff members, assesses the river corridor and greenway for blockages, both in the water and on the paths, to maintain the river’s navigability for small boats and access to the riverbanks by foot.
To read about what we've been up to lately, check out the
Bronx River Biolog and check out a great video
feature of Assistant Crew Leader Elaine Feliciano.
The Concrete Plant Park
(Click here for map) adds seven acres to the Bronx Park System and the Bronx River Greenway. The $10 million capital project was funded by Congressman José E. Serrano, mayoral funds, the Bronx Borough President, Croton Mitigation Funds, and a Recreation Trails Grant from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation.
In 1999, the Concrete Plant Park was saved from the auction block by community residents, led by Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ), and the NYC Parks Department designated the site as parkland. These efforts were supported by The Point Community Development Corporation, Community Boards, elected officials and others who saw the site’s potential as a crucial link in the development of the Bronx River and the Bronx River Greenway.
Since 2001, the Parks Department and the Bronx River Alliance, in close partnership with community and public agency partners, have re-established salt marshes on armored riverbanks that were once strewn with trash and tires, and now host community festivals, and receives thousands of people out on the river in canoes. Organizations including Rocking the Boat, YMPJ, Sustainable South Bronx, and Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School have sponsored boat building and on-water programming, film screenings, and water quality monitoring activities that have kept the park in active use.
Now residents of the Bronx have access to a beautiful park featuring remnants of the concrete plant towers preserved as sculptural elements, a boat launch, bench area, restored salt marsh, entrance plazas at Bruckner Boulevard and Westchester Avenue, and the first new segment of the Bronx River Greenway.
