BRONX: NEW PARK TO BE BUILT ON WATERFRONT
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The city broke ground yesterday on a $3.2 million park in the Hunt’s Point section of the Bronx at a site that has long been used for illegal dumping.
The 1.4-acre lot, once home to abandoned cars, old tires, and trash, abuts the Bronx River and is expected to open in early 2006 after remediation is complete.
“New Yorkers will be able to come here and fish off a floating dock, play softball on a new lawn, watch a performance in an amphitheater, jog or bicycle off a system of shoreline parks, or just relax on a bench with a good book,” Mayor Bloomberg told reporters and community groups from a podium in front of the Bronx River. Funding for the Hunt’s Point Riverside Park, as the site will be called, was earmarked in the city’s capital budget and is part of a larger revitalization effort in the area.
