NEW YORK, N.Y. — People in the Bronx, New York, get their first chance next week to shape a planned 15-mile greenway along the borough’s waterfront, the opening step in a public planning push the city Department of Transportation is starting on four long walking and biking corridors outside Manhattan.
The opening in-person workshop runs 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, inside Hunts Point’s BankNote Building on Lafayette Avenue. An online session follows the next day, Thursday, Nov. 5, during the same two hours. Registration for both is online.
The Bronx route would stretch from Randall’s Island east to SUNY Maritime, near the Throgs Neck Bridge. Transportation officials say it would make trips to industrial job centers such as Hunts Point easier and tie together waterfront parks in Soundview and Throggs Neck.
Greenways are continuous paths that weave between streets, parks and the water so people on foot or on bikes can travel without mixing with car traffic. DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn said the paths give residents safe ways to reach parks, work and places around their neighborhoods, and he urged residents to come to a workshop and share what they want to see.
Workshops for the other three corridors, in eastern and southern Brooklyn, along the northern Staten Island waterfront and along the southern Queens waterfront, begin in 2027. All four belong to a set of six early-action plans drawn up jointly by city transportation, parks and economic development officials that together would add more than 40 miles of greenway. Planning is underway on a northern Queens route and finished on the western Bronx Harlem River route.
The six corridors are paid for with a $7.25 million federal grant the city won in August 2022 through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s RAISE program.
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