2 years ago, while walking over the bridge past the big gate for the zoo, I saw a whole family of turtles. Big ones, a 4', a 3', and at least a dozen 12"ers in the river.
Oh, no... The nuclear, chemical and other man made pollutants in the river are creating giant monster turtles that glow green and have two heads! I pulled a 2 foot (snout to tail) snapping turtle as a young teen out of this river back in 1968-69?. This river was a play place for the guys on my block. And many others. I'll bet I know secrets about this river that the experts at the BRA ( ha! bra...) have no idea of. Why do they not go up river into lower Westchester? It's probably where a lot of pollutants are coming from. Picking needles and empty crack vials out of the river isn't helping. You will be picking that man made crap out of that river forever. Find and trace where the pollutants are coming from. They tried to do that in the 60's and 70's and the river is still polluted. There used to be open, huge storm drains emptying into the river in the area where Oak Street passes over it. It was huge. Us kids would get flashlights and explore them in the dryer seasons. Once, we entered one tunnel that went under the BRP and got lost underground! Complete darkness until we saw a light overhead. It was a manhole cover. So we climbed up and pushed it open. We came up in someone's backyard. There must have been an easement coming down out of Yonkers. The people sitting in their yard just looked at us street urchins like it happened every day! We apologized and got out of there. If we hit a gas pocket. We all would have died and no one would have known what happened to six Bronx youths until the next heavy rain flooded the drain pipes and washed us out into the river. Or we'd get eaten up by the giant rats in there. We always carried a BB or pellet gun to deal with those critters. You adventurers should paddle upstream into Westchester County if you want to see a different part of the river. At least until Bronxville Lake. The county used to stock that lake with several types of fish. And fishing was free and unlicensed. There used to be many fish in the river back then. Red carp, some huge. They would face up river and stay still as the current flowed through their gills. We would sneak up behind them and scoop them out of the water. You can't eat them. So, we'd throw them back in. Inner city entertainment... Too many stories about this river to tell here.
Awesome Video! I currently dont own my own Kayak (live in Brooklyn apt.=) I tried to research or find a place in the bronx that rents kayaks near the river but I can't seem to find any? The Bronx river is such a cool resource for urban dwellers to get outdoors but we don't seem to have access to it. Can you point me in the right direction on finding a kayak rental in the Bronx? Or are people not wanted on the river?
Just do like we did as kids. Steal a cement tub and float down river in it... Great fun... All these gentrified yuppies floating down the river in kayaks and canoes. Ha! If we saw that as kids, we would have laughed our asses off. I laugh now, and I'm 70 years old.
Michelle is such a natural, she needs her own UA-cam series!
This is such a worthwhile project! There should be more of this kind of thing.
Awesome!
I learned so much in this short video! Thank you for all you do!
This was amazing! Thank you! Sometimes I take for granted the beauty right in our own backyard!
What a fantastic video, thank you to the incredible staff for putting this together!
Nice park I’ve been there can’t wait till it’s done
Love from Karjat ❤️
Thanks for joining!
This is beautiful. I would love to make this trip down the river one day myself. Thank you!
We would love to have you! We hope to resume public paddling programs soon!
2 years ago, while walking over the bridge past the big gate for the zoo, I saw a whole family of turtles. Big ones, a 4', a 3', and at least a dozen 12"ers in the river.
Oh, no... The nuclear, chemical and other man made pollutants in the river are creating giant monster turtles that glow green and have two heads!
I pulled a 2 foot (snout to tail) snapping turtle as a young teen out of this river back in 1968-69?. This river was a play place for the guys on my block. And many others. I'll bet I know secrets about this river that the experts at the BRA ( ha! bra...) have no idea of.
Why do they not go up river into lower Westchester? It's probably where a lot of pollutants are coming from. Picking needles and empty crack vials out of the river isn't helping. You will be picking that man made crap out of that river forever. Find and trace where the pollutants are coming from. They tried to do that in the 60's and 70's and the river is still polluted. There used to be open, huge storm drains emptying into the river in the area where Oak Street passes over it. It was huge. Us kids would get flashlights and explore them in the dryer seasons. Once, we entered one tunnel that went under the BRP and got lost underground! Complete darkness until we saw a light overhead. It was a manhole cover. So we climbed up and pushed it open. We came up in someone's backyard. There must have been an easement coming down out of Yonkers. The people sitting in their yard just looked at us street urchins like it happened every day! We apologized and got out of there. If we hit a gas pocket. We all would have died and no one would have known what happened to six Bronx youths until the next heavy rain flooded the drain pipes and washed us out into the river. Or we'd get eaten up by the giant rats in there. We always carried a BB or pellet gun to deal with those critters.
You adventurers should paddle upstream into Westchester County if you want to see a different part of the river. At least until Bronxville Lake. The county used to stock that lake with several types of fish. And fishing was free and unlicensed. There used to be many fish in the river back then. Red carp, some huge. They would face up river and stay still as the current flowed through their gills. We would sneak up behind them and scoop them out of the water. You can't eat them. So, we'd throw them back in. Inner city entertainment... Too many stories about this river to tell here.
Awesome Video! I currently dont own my own Kayak (live in Brooklyn apt.=) I tried to research or find a place in the bronx that rents kayaks near the river but I can't seem to find any? The Bronx river is such a cool resource for urban dwellers to get outdoors but we don't seem to have access to it. Can you point me in the right direction on finding a kayak rental in the Bronx? Or are people not wanted on the river?
Shoelace park in the summer . From 10am to 3pm free kayak rides you can also contact 311 or go to the nyc parks web site
Just do like we did as kids. Steal a cement tub and float down river in it... Great fun...
All these gentrified yuppies floating down the river in kayaks and canoes. Ha! If we saw that as kids, we would have laughed our asses off. I laugh now, and I'm 70 years old.