Hunts Point Riverside Park is the first new riverside park in the South Bronx

South Bronx

The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of The Bronx. The neighborhoods of Tremont, University Heights, Highbridge, Morrisania, Soundview, Hunts Point, and Castle Hill are sometimes considered part of the South Bronx....

, New York City

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 in over sixty years, the first of a planned series of parks to be linked by a bike route, the South Bronx Greenway.

Ground was broken July 19, 2004 on a US$

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3.2 million project to convert a vacant lot used as an illegal dumping ground into a 1.4 acres (5,665.6 m²) park.

Before the planned park project, the site was an abandoned lot as part of a defunct Robert Moses

Robert Moses

Robert Moses was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, Rockland County, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is sometimes compared to Baron Haussmann of Second Empire Paris, and is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of...

-era bridge project.