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Landmarks Commission to Vote April 16 on Proposed Designation of Aqueduct Walk as Scenic Landmark

Volunteers from the University Heights community and Friends of Aqueduct Walk gather for a clean-up event along the the Old Croton Aqueduct Walk between 183rd Street and Fordham Road on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2020.
Photo by Pilar Maschi, Partnership for Parks

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) will vote on Tuesday, April 16, on the proposed designation of the Bronx’s Old Croton Aqueduct Walk as a scenic landmark.

 

A 4.9-acre shoestring park that runs along Aqueduct Avenue between West Kingsbridge Road and Burnside Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx, Aqueduct Walk is a popular public walkway built on top of the Old Croton Aqueduct, an engineering marvel constructed in 1842 that brought the first direct water supply to New York City.

 

The walking path along the aqueduct’s embankment became a beloved neighborhood open space almost immediately, according to LPC, attracting local residents including author Edgar Allan Poe, and has been a New York City park since 1930.

Volunteers from the University Heights community and Friends of Aqueduct Walk gather for a clean-up event along the the Old Croton Aqueduct Walk between 183rd Street and Fordham Road on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2020.
Photo by Pilar Maschi, Partnership for Parks

Norwood News has reported over the years on the community’s ongoing efforts to revitalize the area, which at one point was plagued by open drug use and discarded needles.

 

LPC’s public hearing/meeting will be held in the agency’s hearing room at 1 Centre Street, 9th Floor, Borough of Manhattan, and will be live-streamed on the agency’s YouTube channel here.

 

For more information on LPC public hearings/meetings and how to participate, see our hearings page https://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/hearings/hearings.page.

 

Welcome to the Norwood News, a bi-weekly community newspaper that primarily serves the northwest Bronx communities of Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham and University Heights. Through our Breaking Bronx blog, we focus on news and information for those neighborhoods, but aim to cover as much Bronx-related news as possible. Founded in 1988 by Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a not-for-profit affiliate of Montefiore Medical Center, the Norwood News began as a monthly and grew to a bi-weekly in 1994. In September 2003 the paper expanded to cover University Heights and now covers all the neighborhoods of Community District 7. The Norwood News exists to foster communication among citizens and organizations and to be a tool for neighborhood development efforts. The Norwood News runs the Bronx Youth Journalism Heard, a journalism training program for Bronx high school students. As you navigate this website, please let us know if you discover any glitches or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to hear from you. You can send e-mails to norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org or call us anytime (718) 324-4998.

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