Upgrading the Westchester Bridge

2010 Amazing Bronx River Flotilla

May 01, 2010 - May 02, 2010 (9:00am)
2010 Amazing Bronx River Flotilla
Concrete Plant Park






Tiny sea life discovered

Constructing & Modernizing NYC schools

23 new school buildings with more than 13,000 seats will open at the start of the 2009-10 school year. The renovation of public schools continues with the improving of exterior structures & including the planting & student stewardship of trees on it's grounds…

Within the school high academic standards are the norm. There is a new reforming of special education designed to better meet the specific needs of individual students, advancing teaching methods… extending mainstream education to the disabled … Important improvements are happening within these walls along with the beautiful exuberance of its children.

This is the case at Bronx Little School where my children attend and I have the privilege of being on their School Leadership Team

where I stalk sandpipers

The proximity of the two industrial sites next to where I stalk sandpipers along the river bank always...
leaves me with strong pangs of disturbing fascination.

As a native New Yorker born here on the Island of Manhattan I have learned to love the expanses along the polarities in my environment....
The environmentally decimated & the wild life sanctuaries,
The Irony towers of learning & the unreachably ignorant ,
The enormous wealth & unfortunate poverty,
Cultural riches of the world & the tragedy of social neglect.

A thousand years ago along this very same river bank there may have stood
a Lenapee Indian who's world view could not have perceived such incredible polarities...

but who's level of civilization may have been more advanced than mine.

Face to Face with a snail in the rain

Native Forest ~ Bronx Botanical Gardens

Bronx River