Riverside Park to Extend Manhattan Greenway for East Harlem

East Harlem will finally get its piece of the Manhattan Greenway — a long-planned park that, if it is ever finished, will create a contiguous 32-mile waterfront pedestrian promenade and bicycle path around Manhattan.

“The Manhattan Greenway offers incredible opportunities for waterfront recreation, and connects communities across the borough… but residents of neighborhoods like East Harlem remain cut off from this great resource,” said James Patchett, president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation.

As part of the recent rezoning of East Harlem, the City committed $83 million in capital towards the development of a new seven-block-long, seven-acre stretch of the Greenway in East Harlem, featuring bicycle and pedestrian paths from E. 125th and E. 132nd streets.

Officials at EDC and the Parks Department will begin to design the new Greenway segment in 2018. It is expected to open in 2023.

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