Sachkerah Woods Playground is open!
The southeast corner of Van Cortlandt Park (at the corner of Jerome Avenue and Gun Hill Road) has a new playground, picnic area, bench-lined pathways and a comfort station. The rehab project is part of more than $200 million in Bronx park improvements that the city offered Bronx state legislators in exchange for their approval on the controversial construction of a water filtration plant, also in Van Cortlandt Park, adjacent to the new playground.
A formal ribbon-cutting ceremony has not yet been scheduled.
Sachkerah Woods is named for an Algonquin phrase that is loosely translated as "extended land," according to the Parks Department.
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