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Bronx Aqueduct Walk Gets Some Love

Author: 
FOCAAdmin
Post date: 
12/04/2020 - 8:41am

(photo by Pilar Maschi)

Volunteers from the Friends of Aqueduct Walk and the University Heights community, led by Pilar Maschi, Partnership for Parks Catalyst facilitator, demonstrated their hard work and love for the Aqueduct trail by holding a clean-up event on Saturday, November 8. An article in the Norwood News' November 27 issue noted that the volunteers also planted crocuses. Aqueduct Walk, a New York City park, lies between Fordham Road and 183rd St. in The Bronx.

Congratulations from Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct!

 

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Mercy College students showed us all what good neighbors they are to the Aqueduct

Author: 
FOCAAdmin
Post date: 
11/25/2020 - 10:24am

The Mercy campus is right on the trail in Dobbs Ferry, but on a Saturday in November a group of students went further afield to parts of the Aqueduct where they don’t usually walk.

They assembled at a neglected section of the Aqueduct in Yonkers at Summit Street. It is a section that caught the attention of Mercy Professor, Mary Allison Murphy who teaches Exercise Science. The students got plenty of exercise picking up trash in an area that for some reason is abused by those who live in the area. One piece of trash encourages trash and it piles up.

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Photo by John and Lynn Salmon

Volunteers turn out to successfully and safely manage invasive species in three sections of the OCA

Author: 
DAlden
Post date: 
11/12/2020 - 10:44am

Congratulations to Riverkeeper Sweep for successfully encouraging so many of us to get outside and improve our waterways and trails on October 17, 2020. The Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct accepted the invitation to participate, having missed our traditional I Love My Park Day in May 2020. We set up three separate sites, restricted registration, wore our masks, and managed our work while socially distancing. We had a very successful event with 39 participants.

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Patch Earner's Tale of Completing the Westchester Portion

Author: 
FOCAAdmin
Post date: 
10/29/2020 - 8:50am

 

A report by patch earner Lloyd Philips (follow him on Instagram! @doubleLp)

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The Croton Arch of Triumph

Author: 
FOCAAdmin
Post date: 
10/13/2020 - 10:43am

Dionisio Cortes Ortega, a NYS Registered Architect, has created a sculpture entitled Croton Arch of Triumph (Croton Arch of Triumph), which can be found at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, It is a monument to the Old Croton Aqueduct System. In her words, "The inspiration for the sculpture came from a book that Kevin Bone, a professor and architect from The Cooper Union, wrote called Water Works. The book has a great account of the entire NYC water system history.”

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