Hunts Point Riverside Park

Hunts Point Riverside Park is a riverside park located in the Hunts Point neighborhood in the South Bronx section of New York City. 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.^[1]

Hunts Point Riverside Park
Type	Municipal park
Location	Hunts Point, Bronx, The Bronx, New York
Coordinates	40.817722°N 73.881528°W / 40.817722; -73.881528
Area	0.43 acres (0.17 ha)
Opened	1940 (1940)
Owned by	New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
Status	open all year
Water	The Bronx River
Public transit access	New York City Bus: Bx6
Connector to	The South Bronx Greenway
Facilities	kayaking, playground
Website	www.nycgovparks.org/parks/hunts-point-riverside-park/

Ground was broken July 19, 2004, on a US$ 3.2 million project to convert a vacant lot used as an illegal dumping ground into a 1.4-acre (5,700 m²) park.^[2]

Before the planned park project, the site was an abandoned lot that was once part of a defunct Robert Moses era bridge project.^[1] The POINT Community Development Corporation's Majora Carter spearheaded the development of this park.

Hunts Point Riverside Park was the 2009 Silver Medalist of the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence^[3]

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After

See also

• South Bronx Greenway
• Barretto Point Park

References

1. 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". The official website of the City of New York. Office of the Mayor of New York. July 19, 2004. Archived from the original on 8 January 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
3. "Hunts Point Riverside Park 2009 Silver Medalist New York City, NY". Rudy Bruner Award. Retrieved 25 December 2017.