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1 2 3 4 5 6 HUDSON RIVER VALLEY GREENWAY LINK -- Preferred Routing Old Croton Aqueduct Trail Manhattan Waterfront Greenway City of Yonkers, Westchester County New York City 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 HUDSON RIVER VALLEY GREENWAY LINK CoverAcknowledgements Picture Locations 1. Inwood Hill Park Waterfront Path - Manhattan 2. Henry Hudson Bridge and Inwood Hill Park - Manhattan 3. Hudson River Waterfront @ MNR Riverdale Station 4. JFK Marina Park - Yonkers 5. Old Croton Aqueduct Trail - Yonkers 6. Yonkers Waterfront @ Main Street 7. Wharburton Avenue - Yonkers 8. Spuyter Duyvil Amtrack Swing Bridge - Bronx-Manhattan 9. Yonkers Waterfront @ Main Street 10. Riverdale Park and Palisade Avenue - Bronx 11. Ludlow Street - Yonkers 12. Riverdale Waterfront and Track 6 at College Point - Bronx 13. Beczak Environmental Center - Yonkers HUDSON RIVER VALLEY GREENWAY LINK 2 AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements Technical Advisory Committee Funding Secured By: Greater Riverdale Chamber of Commerce NY League of Conservation Voters Senator Charles Schumer 5BBC Hudson Heights Owners Coalition, Community NYC RoadRunners Club Board 12, Henry Hudson Scenic Byway Funding Provided By: Along the Hudson NYU - Wagner Hudson River Park Trust American Sugar Refining Open Space Institute Federal Highway Administration Hudson River Valley Greenway Beczak Environmental Education Center Parks & Trails New York Steering Committee Hudson River Valley Greenway Communities Bronx Chamber of Commerce Council Regional Plan Association Amtrak, Capital Program Development Bronx Community Board 8 Interested Public Riverdale Nature Preservancy City Of New York Department of Parks & Recreation, Bronx Bronx Council for Environmental Quality Inwood Livable Streets Riverdale Press Borough Commissioner Bronx Overall Economic Development Island Garden Riverdale Yacht Club City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation, Northern Corporation Manhattan Parks Leake and Watts Rivers, Trails, & Conservation Assistance Program, Century Road Club National Park Service - New York City City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation, Planning Lower Washington Heights Neighborhood City of Yonkers Department of Parks, Recreation, Association Scenic Hudson City of Yonkers Planning and Conservation Manhattan College Shorewalkers East Coast Greenway Alliance MTA - Bridges and Tunnels Manhattan Community Board 12 South Broadway BID Empire State Development Corporation MTA - Metro North Railroad Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance Transportation Alternatives Environmental Defense Fund New York State DOT-Regions 8 and 11 Mount Saint Vincent Tri-State Transportation Campaign Ferry Sloops Inc. NYC Dept. of City Planning Natural Resources Defense Council Trust for Public Land Fieldston Property Owners Association NYC Dept. of City Planning, Transportation New York City Audubon Village of Ossining Five Boro Bike Club NYC DOT New York Cycle Club Wave Hill Friends of Fort Tyron Park Trust NYC DOT, Bicycle Program New York Department of State (Office of West Harlem Environmental Action Friends of Hudson River Park Coastal, Local Government and Community Sustainability) Westchester Cycle Club NYC DOT, Manhattan Borough Commissioner Friends of Spuyten Duyvil New York New Jersey Trail Conference Yonkers Chamber of Commerce Westchester County Department of Parks Friends of the Hudson River Greenway in the Bronx New York State Department of Environmental Yonkers Paddling & Rowing Club Westchester County Department of Planning Conservation Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct Yuvan Planning & Development Westchester County Department of Public Works and New York State Department of Parks, Recreation Transportation (Planning) Gaia Institute and Historic Preservation Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce New Yorkers for Parks HUDSON RIVER VALLEY GREENWAY LINK 3 Table of Contents A New Link in the Hudson River Valley Greenway Trail between Northern Manhattan and Westchester County Joel P. Ettinger, Executive Director 1. PROJECT OVERVIEW 5 History of the Project and Purpose of this Study 7 The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway along the Hudson River from Battery Park in lower Manhattan 1. What is the Hudson River Valley Greenway? 7 to Dyckman Street in northern Manhattan is one of many projects that are shaping an interconnected 2. What is the purpose of this study and what are the project limits? 7 network of multi-purpose greenway corridors in the 3. How did this study come about and how was it funded? 7 Hudson River Valley Greenway, which includes the development of a trail or pathway system consistent The Project Team 8 with the greenway criteria connecting the city of New York to Saratoga County. 1. Who is NYMTC? 8 2. Who are the Consultants? 8 Building on previous work by community interests in Manhattan, the Bronx and the City of Yonkers, the 3. Who is the Project Steering Committee? 8 New York Metropolitan Transportation Council has completed the Hudson River Valley Greenway Link 4. Who is the Technical Advisory Committee? 9 Study to define a plan and conceptual designs for Environmental Review & Permitting 10 a pathway connecting the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway in northern Manhattan with the Old 1. General Information 10 Croton Aqueduct Trail in Yonkers, via Riverdale in the northwest Bronx. In doing so, the study has laid 2. Waterfront Alternative: Permitting Issues 10 the groundwork for the development of a critical Potential Funding Sources 11 missing link in the southernmost segment of the larger Hudson River Valley Greenway Trail. 2. IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH 13 The Greenway Link Study evaluated current Introduction 15 conditions in its study area and formulated a phased Proposed Capital Projects - Northern Manhattan and Bronx 16 plan for connecting the existing pathways. The study identified the preferred route for the Greenway Proposed Capital Projects - Yonkers 18 Link as a multi-purpose waterfront trail close to the Hudson River shore which can be developed over Staging Plan 20 time. Additionally, inland paths with visual access to 3. CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF PROPOSED CAPITAL PROJECTS -- Preferred Routing 23 the Hudson River are identified in areas where direct access to the shore is either not possible or can only Inwood Hill Park Stairs 27 be achieved in a medium-to-long-term time frame. Henry Hudson Bridge Cantilevered Side Path & Bronx Approach Walkway 31 The Greenway Link plan and conceptual designs address several significant barriers and constraints in the study area, including: HHP Southbound Service Road; Kappock Street; Palisade Avenue 37 Riverdale Park Waterfront Path & 232nd Street Connection 43 • Crossing the Harlem River ship canal to connect Manhattan and the Bronx; Palisade Avenue & Riverdale Park Pathway 49 • Overcoming difficult topographical challenges to waterfront access in the Bronx; and North Riverdale Waterfront 55 • Dealing with physical facilities along the waterfront in the Bronx and Yonkers. Yonkers Connection Via Fernbrook Street 61 Buena Vista Corridor 65 Alexander Street Corridor 69 JFK Memorial Drive - Warburton Connection 75 HUDSON RIVER VALLEY GREENWAY LINK 4 CHAPTER 1: PROJECT OVERVIEW HUDSON RIVER VALLEY GREENWAY LINK PUTNAM I684 Franklin Fels WESTCHESTER Sanctuary NORTH SALEM N NY118 6 Y11 Y11 N 6 Croton River NY121 US6 Titicus Reservoir 2 U S 2 0 Bear Mountain Bridge US9 Hudson Highlands This study, therefore, concerns itself with establishing an Mountain History of the Project and Purpose of this StateStudy Bike Hudson Highlands Gateway Lakes Camp Route 9 State Park Putnam I684 N alternative route for the official designated HRVG Land Trail from Annsville Y Camp Smith NY132 1 Trail 3 Bear M wy Taconic 8 tn k State Pkwy Dresden a logical connection point located on the OCA Trail in northern S P Ü t e a t Hampton 1. What is the Hudson River Valley Greenway? 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It is Greenway Compact Community Galway Easton Ward Pound Ridge TownShoreline of Cortlandt Trail Galway Ballston Spa County Park to all New Yorkers to the magnificence of the Hudson River Valley.” Malta NY123 Stillwater Cambridge White Creek Charlton Verplanck Ballston Stillwater N Round Lake Briarcliff Schaghticoke within this area that a critical missing gap exists between the Old Y Mechanicville Hoosick