Hudson River Valley Greenway Reports and Letters

The study by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) was completed in 2014. It recommends:

• A long-term route along the shore of the Hudson River, to be implemented in phases (see Overview and Implementation Approach, left)
• Fourteen individual links, to be implemented through many capital projects over 10+ years (see Conceptual Design, left)
• An interim route along existing streets (see Addendum, below left)

This study was funded through the federal "Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: a Legacy for Users" (SAFETEA-LU) Act of 2005.

The Board of Directors of the Preservancy developed and distributed a questionnaire to obtain a clearer sense of the viewpoints of its members on the Hudson River Valley Greenway. Responses to the questionnaire were anonymous, and were reported on June 2012 (left).

The questionnaire was distributed to members of the Preservancy with the Preservancy’s December 2010 fundraising letter, emailed to some 100 members who had provided their email addresses to the Preservancy, posted on the Preservancy’s website, and made available at Riverfest in June 2011. No further responses were received after July 2011.

A total of 65 responses were received between December 2010 and July 2011, including 41 paper responses and 24 on-line responses.

The Hudson River Valley Greenway was created by the New York State legislature through the Hudson River Valley Greenway Act of 1991. The office of the New York State Greenway assists municipalities with the creation of local sections of the greenway.

Riverdale residents, including the Riverdale Nature Preservancy, formed a greenway advisory committtee to study potential greenway routes through the Bronx, and received a grant from the Greenway office in 1996. The committee reported its recommendations to the New York State Greenway office in October 1998 (left).