BRONX DEAD END TRANSFORMED TO WATER ACCESS

A dead-end street in the South Bronx has been transformed into a 1.5 acre public space with a fishing pier, a kayak launch and tidal pools along a restored shoreline. Giant boulders from the remnants of the Willis Avenue Bridge form waterfront seats.

This is Hunts Point Landing on the East River, the latest addition to a network of public spaces on the South Bronx waterfront, including Barretto Point Park, also on the East River, and Hunts Point Riverside Park on the Bronx River. The creation of Hunts Point Landing was cosponsored by the NYC Economic Development Corporation and Congressman José E. Serrano, and designed by Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects with equal attention to pleasing aesthetics and green infrastructure.

Hunts Point Landing is a project of the South Bronx Greenway Master Plan, released in 2006, which identified opportunities to link existing and new parks through a network of waterfront and on-street routes. When complete, the South Bronx Greenway will encompass 1.5 miles of waterfront greenway, 8.5 miles of inland green streets, and nearly 12 acres of new waterfront open space throughout Hunts Point and Port Morris. For a story on Hunts Point Landing from the architects' perspective, click here.