Join CALL Sunday October 29th from 2-3:30pm for a walk along the proposed route for daylighting Tibbitts Brook, the subject of our project 'Finding Tibbetts Brook'

This walk will delve deeper into the significant impact daylighting the brook will have on the surrounding communities in the Bronx. Plagued by flooding and ecological hazards from sewer overflow and fractured by poor urban planning, proposals to restore the wetlands, unearth the brook and create a greenway reconnecting the community will transform this area into a safer and more sustainable place to live.

Meeting at the bottom edge of Van Cortlandt park, Charles McKinney, Eric Sanderson and SLO Architecture Principals Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi will guide us along the route of the abandoned CSX railway heading towards the Harlem River, which is the ideal path for the daylighted Tibbetts Brook to flow as it restores balance to the ecology of the Bronx.
Walk Leaders
Charles McKinney is the Co-Chairman of City as Living Laboratory and the former Principal Urban Designer for NYC Parks. As a Public Realm Visioneer, McKinney builds on his skill set of exploring, understanding, inventing, fixing, and advancing the good ideas of others, hoping to empower people to improve their communities through self organization.
Amanda Schachter & Alexander Levi are 
co-founders and principals of SLO Architecture. They are native New Yorkers, and prior to starting their studio, they were involved in numerous public building projects in Europe where they resided from 1998-2007. CALL has commissioned SLO architecture to design Finding Tibbetts Brook.
Eric Sanderson is a Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society and the director of The Mannahatta Project, an effort to reconstruct the original ecology of Manhattan Island. Sanderson is currently pursuing the Welikia Project—focused on the historical and contemporary ecology of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and surrounding waters—and Mannahatta 2409.
WALK Meeting Point
The walk will begin at the south west corner of Van Cortlandt Park, at the junction of Broadway and 240th street. The walk begins promptly at 2pm. Plan to arrive at least 5 minutes early to register. Nearest subway is 238th on the 1 Train.

The walk will proceed down the path of the CSX rail line, ending at 225th Street Subway Station by 3:30pm.
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