Photos by Nabil Rahman and Jenny Marc Hunts Point’s newest park is an oasis in the midst of the Fulton Fish Market, the jail barge, a salt storage building and an abandoned Sanitation Department wate transfer station. Called Hunts Point Landing, the small park at the foot of Farragut Street [...]
A new bus route that would connect the Hunts Point peninsula to the Longwood side of the Bruckner Expressway could begin transporting passengers by the summer of next year. Officials from the city’s Transit Authority told members of Community Board 2 on Sept. 13 that initial plans call for a [...]
Hunts Point Riverside Park has become the third park in the Bronx to offer free Wi-Fi service through a collaboration between AT&T and the city. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Assemblyman Marcos Crespo and Deputy Parks Commissioner Bob Garafola joined AT&T officials at a ceremony inaugurating the service on [...]
Update: Opening day for Hunts Point Landing, Hunts Point’s newest park, is set for Monday, Sept. 24, when Congressman José E. Serrano Seth W. Pinsky, president of the Economic Development Corporation and local community leaders formally cut the ribbon.
The bus to Barretto Point Park is back.
The South Bronx’s newest green experiment, Waterwash ABC, is now open for all to see. A mini-wetland and a garden through which a trail winds, the work of environmental architecture is a surprise, in the rear of the large furniture warehouse store on the Soundview side of the Bronx River.
On the sweltering day after city schools closed for summer, cooling down was easy in Hunts Point. Hundreds made a splash in the Floating Lady Pool, the seven-lane pool on a barge that has been moored off Barretto Point Park every summer since 2008. Other pool-goers in flip-flops waited on the [...]
As planners look to revitalize the city’s waterfront, one environmental advocacy group says the mayor’s blueprint for change does not go far enough, and wants waterfront communities like Hunts Point to join its efforts.
Clad in insect wings and paper mache masks, over 400 revelers paraded through Hunts Point to Barretto Point Park in the neighborhood’s annual Fish Parade on Saturday, June 16, to celebrate on the peninsula’s waterfront for the ninth straight year. Artist collective TATS CRU served as grand marshals for this [...]