In 2012, Yonkers tore up a downtown parking lot to uncover a river buried for decades; within six months it had created 14,000 sq ft of aquatic habitat
Saw Mill River, Yonkers, New York
For decades, a section of the Saw Mill River in downtown Yonkers, New York, ran underground beneath a parking lot. The river had once helped the city grow into an industrial town, but as land…
