MORE AND MORE BIG-BOX RETAIL DEVELOPMENT PLANNED FOR BRONX
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Runners and cyclists are warring over renovations planned for a beloved Bronx nature trail.
The 1.5-mile Putnam Trail in Van Cortlandt Park is slated for $2.4 million in renovations
by the city Parks Department
to widen and pave the rugged dirt path, changes the agency claims will benefit cyclists, wheelchair users and people with strollers.
But members of the Save the Putnam Trail campaign argue the project will ruin the bucolic atmosphere of the leafy byway.
