About this Event
As part of Climate Week and our interactive Scavenger Hunt, come join in the continuing stewardship and tranformation of Soundview Park to support the living ecology and the community simultaneously. We're partnering with Friends of Soundview Park and Bronx River Alliance in community day to remove litter (as part of International Coastal Cleanup Day), remove invasive species, and plant native species to help protect, improve and restore this beautiful waterfront park.
Bronx River Alliance has been cultivating a revitalized and vibrant shoreline from the ground up for over 50 years. Often considered the north star of community-based land and water stewardship in the city, we are excited to celebrate their work as part of Climate Week and our interactive scavenger hunt.
Called the “Gateway to the Bronx River,” Soundview Park is right where the Bronx River opens into the East River. Once entirely composed of marshland, it was filled in the early 20th century to what is now City park land. Like many ecologies In New York City, it was neglected and worse for much of the last 200 years. Now, with renewed stewardship, the park both satisfies its community nexus for sports, activities and gatherings, while emerging a more natural ecology.
Show up at the 10a start and help us in a global cleanup, where we’ll gather trash that otherwise ends up in the river. There, we’ll learn about the history and amazing work of transformation and reclamation in the last 50 years. Along the way, we’ll offer missions as part of the scavenger hunt.
Please wear protective, weather appropriate clothing that can get dirty – long pants, closed toe shoes, and a hat. Please also bring a reusable water bottle! We will provide all gloves and tools. We will also provide coolers of water, snacks, and lunch after our stewardship efforts.
More about the Partners
The Bronx River Alliance serves as a coordinated voice for the river and works in harmonious partnership to protect, improve and restore the Bronx River corridor so that it can be a healthy ecological, recreational, educational and economic resource for the communities through which the river flows.
Friends of Soundview Park is dedicated to sustaining & enhancing the park & waterfront as a resource for recreation, arts, culture, nature, well-being.
Holes in the Wall Collective connects people to place and possibility. We love creating experiences that give the public fresh ways to engage with difficult subjects and our changing climate. Whether by supporting people and organizations with new audiences and resources or bolstering community and civic engagement through our city-wide climate programming, we support an ecosystem of change and transformation to step further into a sustainable, viable, and thriving future for all of New York City.
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This is part of Holes in the Wall Collective’s Imagined Futures // WaterWAYS
An interactive climate experience and city-wide scavenger hunt to reconnect, ready, repair, and reimagine the future of NYC. All September long 2025.
We invite you to connect with people all over the city and find ground in what climate readiness means in ourselves and our communities. From survival toolkits to the playlists to survive these times, it’s an invitation to recommit your love to our city and our wider ecologies— connecting to the deep and lasting legacies of community-based climate work in every borough of NYC. Let us imagine the future we want, while supporting the work that will get us there.
Join the experience at: holesinthewallcollective.org/imaginedfutures
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1550 Lafayette Ave, 1550 Lafayette Avenue, The Bronx, United States
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