UNDER YOUR FEET: Tibbetts Brook was named Mosholu – meaning “smooth or small stones” – by the Lenape people, for whom the waterway was a source of water and food.
A LOST RIVER: That once meandered from #Yonkers to Van Cortlandt Park in the #Bronx, where the only above-ground portion remains.
It’s now a wetland providing habitat for a diverse range of flora and fauna, from herons to muskrats, while the rest of the stream runs underground through an arched brick sewer system...
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