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Edmundo Martinez's patches are Starlight and Concrete Parks in the Bronx. He has seen inland birds including warblers and woodpeckers as well as aquatic birds like herons and egrets. The Bronx River, New York City's only fresh water river, flows through these parks. Martinez birds big parks like Pelham Bay Park (2,722 acres) and small parks like Hunts Point Riverside Park (1.4 acres). He purposefully birds smaller parks in Black and brown communities to show that you don't have to leave your neighborhood to observe the species of birds typically associated with Central Park. Martinez found his way to birding while cycling; “I'm a big cycling guy,” he said. Observing birds has become a form of meditation for him, bringing him peace and joy. —Follow Edmundo Martinez @bxmundo.—Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera SeamansProducer and Editor: Pod for the PeopleVocalizations: Downy Woodpecker drumming https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/62766Hairy Woodpecker drumming https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/211304391Laughing Gull flock call https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/97299221Great Black-backed Gull long call https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/171253471Pileated Woodpecker drumming https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/63086Northern Flicker drumming https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/534422

Bicycle Talk. Episode 413 September 18th 2024.   Ron's Rant: 911 20 years later.  America's consumption of oil and dependency on motorized vehicles continues to go up. Have we learned nothing. The difference bicycles could make. A green group has pulled 410 scooters and e-bikes out of the Bronx River since July 2023. Really?  On […]

This is the ninth official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Majora Carter, an urban revitalization strategist and real estate developer from the South Bronx. Growing up, she always viewed the neighborhood as a place she had to leave in order to find success. But as she got older, she began to undo some of Robert Moses' legacy, like building Hunt's Point Riverside Park along the Bronx River. She is a champion for bettering neighborhoods like the South Bronx, so that they are places where people want to remain—even when they have been ruined by a tyrant.On today's show, Elliott Kalan and Roman Mars will cover the third section of Part 6 (Chapter 35 through Chapter 38), discussing the major story beats and themes. The Power Broker #09: Majora CarterJoin the discussion on Discord and our Subreddit. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts to listen to ad-free new episodes and get exclusive access to bonus content.

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The National Weather Service has extended a flood warning until 1pm Wednesday in the Bronx, and officials are warning people to avoid areas around the Bronx River. In New Jersey, some residents were evacuated near Crystal Lake and there are more than 100,000 scattered power outages reported. Meanwhile, a New Jersey Transit bus hit and killed a pedestrian on Wednesday morning in Fort Lee. Also, school officials in Maplewood, New Jersey, say a teen basketball player was prohibited from the first quarter of a varsity girls game because she had beads in her hair and the school district has filed a racial bias complaint. Plus, Mayor James Belford of Little Falls, New Jersey is bracing residents for rising floodwaters after yesterday's rainstorm. Finally, WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk is highlighting stories within our communities that center around the idea of fresh starts. Meet Minbiyew Ashagre from Manhattan.

On this episode of The Kasabian Lavoe Show. Wait what is in The Bronx River . Its just candy . Dj Envy lets talk . Blueface is not the daddy . All this and more lets talk about it .. #podcast #djenvy #bronxriver

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Morse code transcription: vvv vvv US files Six more classified documents seized at Biden home Injured Mahomes leads Chiefs Eagles dominate Giants Monterey Park Nine people dead after shooting near LA, police say Alec Baldwin news live Actor to continue filming Rust after involuntary manslaughter charges Woman shoots terminally ill husband and barricades herself in hospital room Dolphins seen in Bronx River for first time in five years President Bidens home searched by Justice Department, more classified material found Peru police make violent raid on Limas San Marcos University Actor Jeremy Renner broke over 30 bones in snow plough accident Buzz Aldrin marries for the fourth time, aged 93 Vulture dies in unusual circumstances at Dallas Zoo, officials say Monterey Park Several people shot near Los Angeles reports Santos says he was not a drag queen in Brazil but was having fun at a festival Tennessee fires officials after damning death penalty report Joe Bidens chief of staff Ron Klain expected to step down reports This Cryptoqueen scammed investors out of 4 billion, the FBI says. Then she boarded a plane and disappeared Ukraine war Hiding from Putins call up by living off grid in a freezing forest Canada settles residential schools lawsuit for 2.8bn Atlanta police arrest 6 in night of chaos after violent protesters lit cop car ablaze, smashed windows

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Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Peru protests Iconic Machu Picchu closed indefinitely Protests in Stockholm, including Koran burning, draw condemnation from Turkey Dolphins seen in Bronx River for first time in five years Tennessee fires officials after damning death penalty report An elderly Florida couples murder suicide agreement ended with a shooting and hostage situation at a Daytona Beach hospital Lead Supreme Court investigator on Dobbs leak makes clear she spoke to all nine justices All 5 inmates who escaped a Missouri detention center have been captured, authorities say Ukraine war The constant risk for ministers travelling by helicopter NFL play offs Mahomes returns after ankle injury as Chiefs lead Jaguars Turkey condemns vile Sweden Quran burning protest Assassinated in cold blood activist killed protesting Georgias Cop City School downplayed warnings about 6 year old before teachers shooting, staffers say President Bidens classified doc scandal complicates reelection bid Brazil Congress riots President sacks army commander This prominent pastor says Christian nationalism is a form of heresy Joe Bidens chief of staff Ron Klain expected to step down reports Canada settles residential schools lawsuit for 2.8bn Elizabeth Holmes Tried To Flee The US After Conviction Buzz Aldrin marries for the fourth time, aged 93

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv This prominent pastor says Christian nationalism is a form of heresy Elizabeth Holmes Tried To Flee The US After Conviction Dolphins seen in Bronx River for first time in five years Ukraine war The constant risk for ministers travelling by helicopter Lead Supreme Court investigator on Dobbs leak makes clear she spoke to all nine justices School downplayed warnings about 6 year old before teachers shooting, staffers say Buzz Aldrin marries for the fourth time, aged 93 All 5 inmates who escaped a Missouri detention center have been captured, authorities say Joe Bidens chief of staff Ron Klain expected to step down reports Protests in Stockholm, including Koran burning, draw condemnation from Turkey President Bidens classified doc scandal complicates reelection bid NFL play offs Mahomes returns after ankle injury as Chiefs lead Jaguars Assassinated in cold blood activist killed protesting Georgias Cop City Turkey condemns vile Sweden Quran burning protest Brazil Congress riots President sacks army commander Canada settles residential schools lawsuit for 2.8bn An elderly Florida couples murder suicide agreement ended with a shooting and hostage situation at a Daytona Beach hospital Peru protests Iconic Machu Picchu closed indefinitely Tennessee fires officials after damning death penalty report

Frank Murphy's friend Kristen Detrow is today's co-host. Frank's friend Bean complimented Kristen's previous appearance on the show.  Subscriber Rena' recently adopted some rescue tortoises. She graciously sent a photo and video. Kristen's daughter wanted a pet tortoise that she could name Mr. Sweatpants. Zoo Knoxville is known for its successful tortoise habitat. “Big Al”' the Aldabra tortoise follows us on Twitter and posts tortoise jokes on Tuesdays.  Kristen smuggled a baby snapping turtle into her college dorm room but eventually had to let it go back into the wild. Frank's family had pet ducklings which they let loose in the Bronx River when they became ducks.  Frank is worried that he came across too strong the last time Kristen and her husband Jeff visited. He gave them a fig plant for their yard. Frank sent Kristen the Facebook invitation for an event called the “Fig Frolic” in Ooltewah on September 17.  Attendees are supposed to bring a fig plant to the Fig Frolic for a white elephant exchange. To reserve free tickets, Frank had to answer a questionnaire about his level of fig expertise. He chose “intermediate.” Frank is hoping to get a Violette de Bordeaux fig tree in the white elephant exchange.  Frank can't figure out why his Brown Turkey fig trees are producing fruits of very different shapes, sizes, and colors. While picking figs this morning, a limb broke off in Frank's hand. When that happens, he buries his mistakes. He cut the limb into about 15 cuttings and planted them in case one or two take root. Frank currently has 28 fig trees growing in his yard.  Kristen and Jeff are about to become empty-nesters when their daughter goes to college. Frank and his wife Jere have been empty-nesters for several years. They like it when Jere's sister and her husband come to visit.  Frank asks if Kristen has any hobbies and is thrilled to learn that both Kristen and Jeff enjoy crossword puzzles. Kristen says she's addicted to TikTok. They like to binge watch Jeopardy! by letting episodes accumulate on their DVR. Kristen has bad luck with plants but wants to do better. She puts googly eyes on her plants.  When Jere's sister and her husband arrived for a visit they needed to fill their gas tank before going out to dinner. Jere suggested they all go to the supermarket to get discounted gas. They took three cars in order to share the discount. Frank realized they were wasting some of their discounted gas when they then took all three cars to Culver's for dinner.  Frank likes the ButterBurgers at Culver's so much that he started buttering his buns at home too. He plans to cook bison burgers with buttered buns when he goes glamping with the twins at Smoky Hollow Outdoor Resort in Sevierville. The twins are his cousins-once-removed Megan & Erin, who are singer-songwriters in Nashville.  When they got to Culver's, a young boy asked Frank to sit with him and his mother. The boy said his name was Gianni and that he was four-years-old. Gianni's mom talked on her phone the entire time. Frank thinks Gianni may have thought that Frank was alone and needed a friend. Jere thinks that Gianni may have thought Frank looked like Santa.  This episode is sponsored by BoneZones.com (don't forget the S). Buy books and other merchandise autographed by Body Farm founder Dr. Bill Bass at https://bonezones.com/  Tickets for the Dr. Bill Bass Birthday Bash at Cherokee Caverns on August 29, 2022 are on sale now at https://www.historiccherokeecaverns.com/  Support the Frank & Friends Show by purchasing some of our high-quality merchandise at https://frank-friends-show.creator-spring.com  Sign up for a 30-day trial of Audible Premium Plus and get a free premium selection that's yours to keep. Go to http://AudibleTrial.com/FrankAndFriendsShow  Find us online https://www.FrankAndFriendsShow.com/  Please subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://YouTube.com/FrankAndFriendsShow  and hit the bell for notifications.  Find the audio of the show on major podcast apps including Spotify, Apple, Google, iHeart, and Audible.  Find us on social media:  https://www.facebook.com/FrankAndFriendsShow  https://www.instagram.com/FrankAndFriendsShow  https://www.twitter.com/FrankNFriendsSh  Thanks!

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In one of our most explosive and most likely controversial episodes ever, Hassan Campbell is our guest. Hassan Campbell is a social media personality who has been outspoken in the last few years speaking about the hypocrisy of hip hop culture and those who benefit off it yet push a message that is detrimental to the community which it effects. He talks about growing up in Bronx River and being around the Zulu Nation and Afrika Bambaataa. He talks about growing up in his house and watching his mom in situations and seeing that his father was absent and how it lead him to looking for a father figure in the streets. He later apologizes to the two men he killed and sent his condolences to their mothers and reflected on how Bronx and Brooklyn Drill makes fun of the dead. TRIGGER WARNING!! This episode discusses adult subject matter, including descriptions of sexual abuse of a child, and is intended for adult consumption only. Listener discretion is advised. If you have been affected by sexual violence, free, confidential support is available 24/7 through RAINN's National Sexual Assault Hotline at 800.656-4673 and online.rainn.org --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/offtherecord-djakademiks/support

As a young girl, Alexie Torres climbed atop the radiator underneath her ninth floor window in the Bronx River Public Housing Projects, watching fires burn through her borough. Torres didn’t understand that these fires were a result of “planned shrinkage” and “urban renewal” in the 1960s and 70s -- which meant, in theory, that municipal authorities could close down public services with the intention of redesigning and rebuilding better. For the residents of the South Bronx, though, it didn’t turn out “better." Fire stations were shut down even as fire emergencies rose, and residents, who had no voice in the rebuilding of their own communities, were increasingly displaced.  These early impressions would lead Torres to social and environmental justice, locally and nationally. By her early 20s, she founded Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ) where she labored with young people on issues from policing to education and environmental justice. A cornerstone of her work was the reclamation of the Bronx River, which was highly industrialized and inaccessible to her community. She co-founded the Bronx River Alliance, which today continues the work of protecting the river.  As an urban planner, activist for environmental justice, and community organizer, Torres has lived into the full meaning of her given name, Alexie: “Defender of Humankind.” Torres’s mother and father were immigrants who came to the U.S. from Puerto Rico as teenagers. After being homeless for a while, her father got a job as a deli man, a dishwasher, and ultimately moved up to become a maintenance man in the public housing projects in which she was raised. As Torres grew up, despite how much she loved her family and community, she learned that the rest of the world would define her success by how far away she could escape from them. So in her 20s, she left the Bronx for Manhattan. Working a corporate career, she became “a conscientious objector to [her] own story,” But during that time, she also became involved with the Williamsburg activist group, El Puente, her introduction to the power of grassroots organizing. In 1992, Torres returned to the South Bronx to participate in Holy Cross parish’s anti-drug rally. When local drug dealers attempted to burn down the church and intimidate them, twelve hundred neighbors -- those the world might deem powerless -- came forward to march. “[To have] people coming from the margins and into the center,” Torres reflected, “… that's where the heart of my planning heart was born.” She went on to found YMPJ, with the mission to prepare young people to become prophetic voices for peace and justice, and served as its executive director for 17 years. Through YMPJ and affiliate projects, Torres has helped create new parks, provide access to the Bronx River, and clean up brownfields. Despite these external achievements, she recognizes that it is “even more important that I contribute to leaving a legacy of a community that understands its own power.” In 2013, Torres was awarded the prestigious Loeb Fellowship through Harvard University. Her service on the national stage has included the White House Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which aimed to reduce poverty and inequality and create opportunity for all. She is the Managing Director of Jubilee Gift, board member of Fr. Richard Rohr’s Center for Action and Contemplation, and most recently, co-creator of the Soul of the Movement Fund to connect healers and wisdom keepers to social movements. For her body of work, she has been named one of "50 Visionaries Changing Our World." A mother of two, Torres has inspired a new generation of young leaders dedicated to promoting peace and justice in their communities. Her vision for change in the face of daunting obstacles has led to success in her efforts to effect positive change within public spaces and marginalized communities. She is a national voice on issues of faith, community organizing, and the sacred work of social justice. Please join us in conversation with this dynamic grassroots activist and defender of humankind.

Nature and history intertwine in all five boroughs -- from The Bronx River to the shores of Staten Island -- in this special episode about New York City's many botanical gardens. A botanical garden is more than just a pretty place; it's a collection of plant life for the purposes of preservation, education and study. But in an urban environment like New York City, botanical gardens also must engage with modern life, becoming both a park and natural history museum. The New York Botanical Garden, established in 1891, became a sort of Gilded Age trophy room for exotic trees, plants and flowers, astride the natural features of The Bronx (and an old tobacco mill). When the Brooklyn Botanic Garden opened next to the Brooklyn Museum in 1911, its delights included an extraordinary Japanese garden by Takeo Shiota, one of the first of its kind in the United States. The World's Fair of 1939-40 also brought an international flavor to New York City, and one of its more peculiar exhibitions -- called Gardens on Parade -- stuck around in the form of the Queens Botanical Garden. PLUS: Gardens help save New York City landmarks -- from an historic estate overlooking the Hudson River to a stately collection of architecture from the early 19th century in Staten Island. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Water Justice: what is it? In this episode, we talk with two experts in the field of environmental justice, Alicia Smith, Associate Director for Policy and Community Engagement Director at Freshwater Future and Kelsea Macilroy, instructor and PhD Candidate in the Sociology Department at Colorado State University. We discuss the different facets of environmental justice, examine injustices surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, and highlight the importance of clean, accessible water for public health. Alicia and Kelsea share salient examples of the challenges communities are facing when it comes to water justice, and the ways that they're engaging in solutions-oriented, participatory democracy to map a path forward. This episode was created with our partners at Water Education Colorado. Join us on We Are Rivers for this critical conversation about the confluence of environmental justice and water equity. Photo Credit: Shoelace Park on the Bronx River, NY; Charles R Berenguer Jr

The Beginning: The story of a Swedish-born immigrant who came to the “new world” in 1639 and bought land along a river. It was soon be known as Jonas Bronck’s river and eventually, the Bronx River. In this episode we will tackle a few misconceptions about how The Bronx became The Bronx and learn of the story of the Bronck family legacy. We will also learn why The Bronx is known as “The Boogie Down.”  For more info on past and future episodes, go to GoBronxPod.com 

Hear about the amazing come back of The Bronx River, including the return of beavers, fish and paddlers. Even film crews are taking notice! AdriftNYC explores 30 waterways that touch one or more of the five boroughs of New York City. In each episode, you’ll get ideas for a new place to visit, plus learn about the history of the waterway, what’s happening below the surface and how each waterway is inspiring the creation of something amazing, or fun. Share: #AdriftNYC Notes: AdriftNYC.com Instagram: AdriftNYC

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Eighty percent of Americans live in cities. In Episode 20 of We Are Rivers, we talk with Majora Carter, co-founder of the Bronx River Alliance, and Jenny Hoffner with American Rivers about why restoring and celebrating urban rivers is so important. Tune in to learn more about the renewed connection local communities have with the Bronx River in New York and the Flint River in Georgia. Photo Credit: Bronx River, Charles R Berenguer, Jr

Dan fights off muggers in Paris and Cape Cod. John deals with Ecuadorian Tree Muggers in Quito. Dan gets hung upside down 30 feet over the Bronx River. Discover the most important Self Defense skill of all!

A true story of the Bronx in the mid-1970’s, and what may have been lurking near a tributary of the Bronx River. “Pukwudgie Near Riverdale?” as told to Peter Bernard read by PQ Ribber To send us your own scary stories for Peter to write up, email Peter at peter @ peterbernard dot com, or … Continue reading #47: Pukwudgie or Gnome in Riverdale? →

Shirley J. Brewer graduated from careers in palm-reading, bartending, and speech therapy. She serves as poet-in-residence at Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Baltimore. Recent poems appear in Barrow Street, Comstock Review, Gargoyle, Poetry East, Slant, and other journals. Shirley’s poetry chapbooks include A Little Breast Music (2008, Passager Books) and After Words (2013, Apprentice House). New from Main Street Rag in 2017 is Shirley’s first full-length collection of poems, Bistro in Another Realm.Originally from New England, Sarah Merrow pulled up roots six years ago and made Baltimore her home. Her chapbook, Unpacking the China, was the winner of the QuillsEdge Press 2015-2016 chapbook competition. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, and she has published essays in The Flutist Quarterly, a trade magazine. In addition to writing poetry, she rebuilds and repairs concert flutes for professional flutists.Jadi Z. Omowale was born and bred in Baltimore, Maryland, where she began writing poetry in fifth grade and has never stopped. Her chapbook of poetry, The Goddess in the Girl, is newly released by Three Sistahs Press, LLC (spring 2017). Her work has been published in Temba Tupu!, an anthology of poetry, fiction, and essays by African American women, Essence magazine, Cave Canem anthologies 2003 and 2004, Welter, and the Black Review. She is a Cave Canem fellow and has attended Soul Mountain Retreat and the Hurston/Wright Writers Week. Jadi is currently at work on a full collection of poetry and completing her first novel, Killing Ants. She is an assistant professor of English at the Community College of Baltimore County.Michelle M. Tokarczyk was born in the Bronx to a working-class white family; they moved to a suburban-like section of Queens when she was nine years old, but her heart remained in the Bronx. She attended Herbert Lehman College and earned a BA in English; then she went on to SUNY Stony Brook and got a doctorate. For over two decades she has been a professor at Goucher College in Baltimore. Her first book, The House I’m Running From, was published by West End Press. Her poems have also appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the minnesota review, The Literary Review, Slant, Third Wednesday, Calling Home: Working-Class Women’s Writings, and For a Living: The Poetry of Work. An avowed urbanite, she divides her time between Baltimore and New York City. (Photo credit: Melanie Henderson.)Read "Plaque with Figure of a Python" and two other poems by Shirley Brewer (click on "Samples"). Read "A Place Unmarked" and "Flute and Guitar Duo" by Sarah Merrow.Listen to Jadi Omowale read poems by Lucille Clifton at 1:25:38.Read "A Personal History of the Bronx River" and two other poems by Michelle Tokarczyk.

Shirley J. Brewer graduated from careers in palm-reading, bartending, and speech therapy. She serves as poet-in-residence at Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Baltimore. Recent poems appear in Barrow Street, Comstock Review, Gargoyle, Poetry East, Slant, and other journals. Shirley’s poetry chapbooks include A Little Breast Music (2008, Passager Books) and After Words (2013, Apprentice House). New from Main Street Rag in 2017 is Shirley’s first full-length collection of poems, Bistro in Another Realm.Originally from New England, Sarah Merrow pulled up roots six years ago and made Baltimore her home. Her chapbook, Unpacking the China, was the winner of the QuillsEdge Press 2015-2016 chapbook competition. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, and she has published essays in The Flutist Quarterly, a trade magazine. In addition to writing poetry, she rebuilds and repairs concert flutes for professional flutists.Jadi Z. Omowale was born and bred in Baltimore, Maryland, where she began writing poetry in fifth grade and has never stopped. Her chapbook of poetry, The Goddess in the Girl, is newly released by Three Sistahs Press, LLC (spring 2017). Her work has been published in Temba Tupu!, an anthology of poetry, fiction, and essays by African American women, Essence magazine, Cave Canem anthologies 2003 and 2004, Welter, and the Black Review. She is a Cave Canem fellow and has attended Soul Mountain Retreat and the Hurston/Wright Writers Week. Jadi is currently at work on a full collection of poetry and completing her first novel, Killing Ants. She is an assistant professor of English at the Community College of Baltimore County.Michelle M. Tokarczyk was born in the Bronx to a working-class white family; they moved to a suburban-like section of Queens when she was nine years old, but her heart remained in the Bronx. She attended Herbert Lehman College and earned a BA in English; then she went on to SUNY Stony Brook and got a doctorate. For over two decades she has been a professor at Goucher College in Baltimore. Her first book, The House I’m Running From, was published by West End Press. Her poems have also appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the minnesota review, The Literary Review, Slant, Third Wednesday, Calling Home: Working-Class Women’s Writings, and For a Living: The Poetry of Work. An avowed urbanite, she divides her time between Baltimore and New York City. (Photo credit: Melanie Henderson.)Read "Plaque with Figure of a Python" and two other poems by Shirley Brewer (click on "Samples"). Read "A Place Unmarked" and "Flute and Guitar Duo" by Sarah Merrow.Listen to Jadi Omowale read poems by Lucille Clifton at 1:25:38.Read "A Personal History of the Bronx River" and two other poems by Michelle Tokarczyk.Recorded On: Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Called an "open sewer" in the recent past, the Bronx River is now clean enough for a type of herring to once again be introduced and to make runs to the ocean.  

Called an "open sewer" in the recent past, the Bronx River is now clean enough for a type of herring to once again be introduced and to make runs to the ocean.  

The Mohegan Indians knew it as Aquehung or "River of High Bluffs." We know it as the Bronx River. The roughly 24-mile river runs deep with history, a history that includes a whole lot of pollution. On this week's Cityscape we're talking with Maggie Scott Greenfield, the Executive Director of the Bronx River Alliance. The organization is committed to protecting, improving and restoring the Bronx River corridor.

The Mohegan Indians knew it as Aquehung or "River of High Bluffs." We know it as the Bronx River. The roughly 24-mile river runs deep with history, a history that includes a whole lot of pollution. On this week's Cityscape we're talking with Maggie Scott Greenfield, the Executive Director of the Bronx River Alliance. The organization is committed to protecting, improving and restoring the Bronx River corridor.

Two friends set out one March morning with an inflatable raft, a camouflage tent ... and a ridiculous idea. They plan to paddle the Bronx River, all the way from Valhalla to New York City. It's the kind of trip that no one even talks about attempting. On this episode, in honor of Earth Day, we share their story. It's a story about the trials and tribulations of exploring forgotten bits of wilderness: the places where nature and civilization meet. Places where people are not meant to go. It's also an intimate socio-environmental portrait of a waterway -- a reminder of just how much our surroundings can show us about ourselves. Pace University Professor Brice Particelli brings us the story.

For our inaugural episode, we tackle the idea of universal summer jobs for all New York City youth. In February of 2016 Lazar Treschan, Director of Youth Policy at CSS, produced a report proposing the idea that all students who want one should have access to summer employment. Not only should they get a job, but that job should be connected integrated with their schooling. In this podcast, we hear from David R. Jones, the President and CEO of CSS, about our proposal and why summer jobs are so important for young people. Then we head up to the Bronx to see first-hand one school that is working hard to provide meaningful summer employment to their students; and we end up at a boat building workshop on the Bronx River.

By inviting the public to enjoy the Bronx River, the Bronx River Alliance is creating sustainability enthusiasts and improving the local ecosystem for both humans and wildlife.

Urban Jungles Radio prides itself on bringing you the BIGGEST names in Herpetology so this time I figured we'd bring you one of the smallest...one you haven't heard...yet! A great story about a great kid unfolds with Erik Zeidler an undergrad student at KU. You're gonba love this one and we'll also talk about some recent news items such as venomous snake deaths and a near miss in NJ this week. Maybe I'll even throw in a new song...all coming up on UrbanJunglesRadio.com

New York City's most exotic residents inhabit hundreds of leafy acres in the Bronx at the once-named New York Zoological Park. Sculpted out of the former DeLancey family estate and tucked next to the Bronx River, the Bronx Zoo houses hundreds of different species from across the globe, many endangered and quite foreign to most American zoos. The well meaning attempts of its founders, however, have sometimes been mired in controversy. The highlight of the show -- and the institution's lowest moment -- is the sad tale of Ota Benga, the pygmy once put on display at the zoo in 1906! ALSO: We take you on a tour of the zoo grounds, unfurling over 110 years of historical trivia, from the ancient Rocking Stone to the tale of Gunda, the Indian elephant who may also have been a poet. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show.

Zulu nation celebrates its 26th anniversary this week, me and zulu nation... weíre both scorpios, nearly the same age. Bronx in 1981... what the f**k was goin on here..?!?!?A subculture that redefined world culture .. imploded in the poorest parts of New York city.. heres a lil peek into the wierd world of this scene..WHBI, NEWARK, 105.?.....Afrika Islam is known as the son of Bambaataa, not for real but he followed the legacy and he held it down on the air in Newark radio at 1 am wednesday nights.. (where this mix is from).. its rough cut from cassette tape -  eclectic unknown breaks, funk, electronic, rock music chopped together .. like a random symphony for kids of hi energy.. its almost spooky to hear just the bare essentials of what we mastered as producers today.. breakbeats, sparse vocals, or horns or guitars chopped in and out.. this is what we deal with today but back then kids just made it all live with a lot of random records they studied.Islam was a staple party dj in early 80ís in nyc.. one of the dudes to really cross over with the down town scene and still stay street and shout out all the gangs in harlem and brooklyn.. he then went on to produce most of Ice Tís first record in LA. then like most zulu dudes had to like move to germany when hip hop went crazy with puffy and stuff.. The first time I heard ìits just begunì by jimmy castor was at a warehouse in Tennessee when i was like 15. These kids would bring boomboxes and breakdance on the marble floor. It was the second wave of hip hop culture that went through the midwest mostly on  freight trains covered in spray paint, and raves... but we had as much passion as the first b boys.. just mad late- actually I think by then early nineties like Germans and Lithuanians were winning all the breakdance contests anyway.. but that whole s**t changed my life. When i heard the Jimmy castor song and saw kids dancing to it i thought it really did mean something... like the revolution was about to begin.maybe it did. I started painting on the trailors parked on the 2 lane highway by house when the were building mattress barns and new Shoneyís diners..  I know now how wack mini malls are, But white trailors, trains, mud and fences at night was like all i day dreamed about in the day besides this girl that worked at the donut shop..  so maybe I was part of a revolution?If you want to read up on ZULUDavey D pretty much broke it down herehttp://www.daveyd.com/zulunationhistory.html...its pretty mindblowing how big this s**t is and what it really means..i mean damn,to say ì if people  focused energy on creativity instead of crimeî sounds like something Nancy Reagan would say... but thats exactly what happened and it turned out to redefine the world.. I always say that i do what i do cause of bambaataa and ZULU.. but its really true.

Pollinators Good, Pollen Bad—2 of 2. This week on Fordham Conversations, we’ll talk about what the pollen count actually means and what seasonal allergies do to us…and we’ll get out onto one of New York’s more surprising natural areas—the Bronx River.