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Via WABC7

The new schools join the city's some 1,700 already established schools:

Academy of Cultural Excellence -- Serving Pre-K through fifth grade in District 30 in Long Island City

Bronx School of Arts & Exploration -- Located in the Highbridge/South Crotona section of the Bronx, this District 75 school serves students with disabilities in kindergarten through eighth grade

The Bronx School of Hip-Hop -- Serving grades nine through 12 in District 9 in the Claremont section of the Bronx

Queens Academy for Innovative Learning -- The District 75 school in Astoria serves students with disabilities in grades six through 12

West Q Elementary -- Located in Woodside and serving kindergarten through fifth grade in District 24

While this is the Wards Island - Queens segment, I decided to share since it's also a link to both Manhattan and The Bronx (via Randalls/Wards Island)

Saw this new walk or bikeway being constructed on the Triborough Bridge (I-278 West) main span south side.

Right now it's shared on the Northside of the bridge for walk and bike.

Via WPIX 11, April 30, 2026

BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) – What if you could get to the West Bronx by boat?

City Council Member Althea Stevens is proposing a new ferry route along the Harlem River, bringing New Yorkers to the West Bronx. It’d be the first ferry route on the Harlem River.

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She’s calling on the Department of Transportation to study potential ferry stops, the optimal boat size, and the estimated cost of new routes. The department would be required to produce a public report within the year.

Stevens introduced the legislation in January, and it’s under consideration by a council committee.

Ferries only currently stop at Throgs Neck and Soundview in the Bronx. The New York City Economic Development Corporation operates the ferry.

Ahead of the summer’s World Cup matches in New Jersey, some elected officials are also calling for added ferry service across the Hudson River, allowing a cheaper option.

Councilmember Shaun Abreu said the timing is critical, noting that $100 million in federal funding has been set aside for World Cup transit projects. The money must be used by May 11.

As of about April 2026, the covering was removed from the building. Only the street level scaffolding is up. Took the first one on May 1, 2026 and the second one February 2025.

Swipe... The alternative and current section of The Bronx River Greenway in West Farms. Street segment along Bronx River Avenue which links the BRG in Bronx Park with Starlight Park BRG. Now the BRG is permanently moved to West Farms Rapids Park nearby at Bronx Street (pics shown). The Bronx Park Avenue segment is served as alternative.

The Bronx River Greenway stretches from Clasons Point, The Bronx County to Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla, Westchester County, NY (known as Bronx River Path), and follows the Bronx River.

Photos by me

More info via NYC EDC

https://edc.nyc/press-release/city-fifa-world-cup-2026-nynj-host-committee-announce-free-fan-events-nyc

Looking northwest in 1991 at Southern Blvd and Westchester Avenue with the Simpson Street IRT 2/5 Station in the Longwood neighborhood of The Bronx, NY

Photo by Meryl Meisler via SeeOldNYC

Seen near Metropolitan Oval

"Wonder is a digital food hall and delivery service that allows you to order dishes from multiple famous restaurants and celebrity chefs in a single transaction."

Just a few pics from this evening at Metropolitan Oval. Was hoping the fountain was on, but guess a bit more wait to see it on. And flowers are popping up, more to come.

I hope to return soon and capture more.

(Late April 2026, Photos by me)

Via the Riverdale Press, April 17, 2026

In a new study, researchers at the New York Botanical Garden urge city planners to rethink how and where New York builds, using the city’s past as a guide to its future.

Mapping where water once flowed, where it floods today and where it is expected to flood again, the paper identifies areas across the five boroughs most vulnerable to impacts from intensifying climate change. It suggests historic streams and creeks, long buried under the city landscape, still shape how water moves, even after decades of development.

The findings are particularly relevant in the northwest Bronx, which was once blanketed by swaths of wetlands. What is now a dense corridor of buildings and traffic was a shallow basin where water pooled and moved slowly.

Centuries ago, a natural freshwater stream, Tibbetts Brook, flowed south through what is now Van Cortlandt Park, Nick Dembowski, president of the Kingsbridge Historical Society, explained. The waterway emptied into the Harlem River through the Spuyten Duyvil Creek.

“Before the 20th century, Kingsbridge was mostly marshland,” Dembowski said. “By Kingsbridge, I mean sort of the valley that’s between Riverdale and Kingsbridge Heights, so like the Broadway, Corlear, Tibbett Avenue kind of area.”

The brook was buried around 1912 to eliminate wetlands and diverted into the city’s sewer system, making way for development and infrastructure, including the construction of a new railroad.

Lucinda Royte, the report’s lead author and NYBG manager of urban conservation data, tools and outreach, worked alongside Eric W. Sanderson, vice president for urban conservation, to bring the project to fruition. In it, Royte introduces what are called “blue zones,” a term referring to places that were historically wet, currently flooded and projected to flood in the future.

According to the study, “Blue Zones: Identifying Adaptation Opportunities Using Past, Present, and Future Flooding in New York City,” these zones cover about 21 percent of New York City’s land and affect roughly 1.2 million people.

To identify the blue zones, researchers drew on more than 500 years of flood data, along with data from 311 service calls. The analysis combines historical maps and future climate projections, offering a more comprehensive view than traditional flood maps.

“The [New York City Department of Environmental Protection] did these projected flooding maps of the future,” Sanderson explained. “If you look at the most intensive flooding scenario that they have in their data, it looks a lot like our maps of the historic streams and wetlands of the city.”

That overlap is central to the study’s argument that the city’s natural landscape still determines where water goes.

“It starts with the historic ecology of New York,” Royte said. “If it was wet in the past, is wet today and will be wet in the future, then that is a place that we consider a blue zone.”

In greater Riverdale, those patterns are especially visible. As part of a former tidal marsh system fed by Tibbetts Brook, much of Kingsbridge still follows the contours of that buried landscape, with water continuing to pool in its lowest points during severe weather events.

That legacy is reflected in Blue Zone 31, a roughly 33-acre stretch tracing the brook’s former path along Tibbett Avenue from the Harlem River inland toward West 231st Street. A portion of Blue Zone 35 extends that corridor north to West 236th Street, marking a continuous band where the land’s underlying shape continues to guide the flow of water.

The same dynamic plays out along the Spuyten Duyvil shoreline, where land meets a river that has itself been reshaped.

In the late 19th century, the city created the Harlem River Ship Canal, a human-made channel that straightened and widened the Harlem River to improve navigation. The project effectively bypassed the river’s natural course, isolating Marble Hill as an island before the original channel was later filled in and attached to the Bronx. The Harlem River as it exists today is largely engineered, its wetlands mostly erased.

Nearby, Blue Zone 25 spans nearly 10 acres at the borough’s northwest edge, covering portions of both the Hudson River and Harlem River shorefront — a stretch where water moves freely between the two.

For Karen Argenti, a member of the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, the study is valuable not just for its data, but for how it explains it.

“When [the city] maps the flooding, they find out where it was a lot of rain and they put it on a map, but they don’t explain it,” Argenti said. “What they did was they explained it.”

That distinction makes the findings more useful for decision-makers, particularly when it comes to development.

“One of the things that we look at is when people are going to develop things, like why are they developing them in floodplains?” Argenti said. “What are these people thinking? Where do they think that water is going to go?”

The study emphasizes that flood risk cannot be addressed in isolation. Because water moves across neighborhoods and infrastructure systems, Royte argues, planning must happen at a broader, landscape scale through inter-agency efforts.

“You can’t just solve flooding in the places where it’s flooding,” Sanderson added. “There’s going to be consequences for places where it’s not flooding.”

That has direct implications for housing and development in neighborhoods like Kingsbridge, where Blue Zones 31 and 35 blanket both commercial and residential areas. If certain locations become increasingly prone to flooding, planners may need to reconsider where new buildings are placed and how existing infrastructure is protected, the study suggests.

In some cases, that could mean working with nature rather than against it. The study points to solutions like restoring waterways, expanding green infrastructure and rethinking how stormwater is managed.

One plan to do so is already underway, with the Tibbetts Brook daylighting project. The initiative will unearth a long-buried stream, bringing it back above ground and redirecting its flow out of the sewer system.

“This is why the Tibbetts Brook daylighting is so important,” Sanderson said. “Essentially, it’s restoring a stream through a blue zone and you’re giving water a place to go.”

By creating a new open channel through areas like Van Cortlandt Park and connecting it to the Harlem River, the project aims to reduce pollution, mitigate flooding and restore former wetlands.

At the neighborhood level, Argenti explained, even small changes can help.

“You have to figure out how to capture the water that’s now going in a drain that’s not big enough,” she said.

Still, the study raises broader questions about long-term planning in a changing climate. In some areas, traditional infrastructure may not be enough to prevent future flooding.

“Some parts of the city where people live now may not be inhabitable in the future,” Royte told The Press.

Among them is Blue Zone 35, which extends into Kingsbridge Heights near the Major Deegan Expressway. It encompasses several full blocks of mixed residential and commercial buildings from West 237th to West 238th streets, between Broadway and Putnam Avenue West.

The NYBG also published an interactive online map that allows users to explore blue zones across the city, as well as see how past waterways, present flooding and future projections overlap. Free and open to the public, the tool offers a clearer picture of where water is likely to go.

Citibike is expanding to Riverdale and Sputyten Duyvil, The Bronx

More information on News 12:

https://connecticut.news12.com/new-citi-bike-stations-coming-to-the-bronx