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Soundview Park (sometimes referred to as Sound View Park) is a park on Clason Point in the Bronx, New York, situated where the Bronx River flows into the East River, roughly opposite Rikers Island and LaGuardia Airport. The park is adjacent to the Clason Point, Shore Haven, and Soundview neighborhoods. The park is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. The park is bounded by the Bronx River Estuary/East River, Lafayette Avenue, Morrison Avenue, Story Avenue, Metcalf Avenue, O'Brien Avenue, and Bronx River Avenue. Soundview Park is equipped with playgrounds, running tracks, sports fields, basketball and handball courts, and kayak/canoe launching sites along the Bronx River Estuary. A bike path runs through the park from Lafayette Avenue to Leland Avenue. __NOTOC__ ==History== Soundview Park was built on landfill over intertidal marshland under Parks Commissioner Robert Moses during the administration of New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The first of the park were acquired by the City of New York in 1937. more were acquired along the water's edge in December, 1939. Plans to dredge and fill the shoreline had been developed by Moses and Sanitation Commissioner William F. Carey in 1938, and the Board of Estimate approved initial funding for the construction project at Sound View Park in March, 1939. The area remained largely undeveloped until the 1950s, and adjacent land was used in 1947 for a New York City Housing Authority temporary housing project made up of 947 apartments in 473 quonset huts. One remaining Quonset Hut is still visible on the south side of Seward Avenue at Croes Avenue. Further, more permanent public and private housing projects were built adjacent to the park in the 1950s. In the summer of 1942, a strange gas that caused silver to tarnish and gave humans headaches and nausea was noticed in the Clason Point neighborhood. Experts and residents initially suspected that the garbage in the landfill under the parkland had not been handled properly, but finally the cause was determined to be dumping of sulphur from a Consolidated Edison plant into nearby stagnant pools. Subsequent extensions of the park were made by purchase of adjacent land in 1952 and 1967, when the park reached its current size. As part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's PlaNYC city planning initiative, the park is slated to be redesigned by landscape architects Thomas Balsley Associates. The landscape architects describe their planned intervention at Soundview Park: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Soundview Park (Bronx)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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