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The Bronx River Alliance is the entity that coordinates and
manages the New York City
Bronx River
corridor and greenway. It is an incorporated not-for-profit organization
and its Executive Director also serves as the Bronx River Administrator, a
New York City Department of Parks & Recreation position.
Its mission is “to serve as a
coordinated voice for the river and work in harmonious partnership to
protect, improve and restore the Bronx
River corridor and
greenway so that they can be healthy ecological, recreational, educational
and economic resources for the communities through which the river flows.”
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The Alliance's objectives are to (16):
• Manage, with the City of New York Department of Parks &
Recreation, the New York City Bronx River corridor and greenway, implement
small scale restoration projects and support community-led or sponsored
restoration and development projects
• Coordinate the implementation of a continuous Bronx River
greenway from the New York City border to the East River and coordinate
with Westchester to make critical greenway linkages
• Provide technical assistance and support to community-based
efforts to organize around the Bronx River
• Develop Bronx River curricula and train teachers to bring the
Bronx River into the classroom and promote the Bronx River as an outdoor
classroom
• Coordinate a Bronx River Watershed monitoring program to
collect and share watershed quality data and to identify and address
watershed quality problems
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