Here's what volunteers found while cleaning up the Bronx River
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2024
- Volunteers have been cleaning parts of the Bronx River ahead of an annual event for kayakers and canoers happening this Saturday. They pulled out all sorts of debris, and some things you might never expect to be dumped in a river. CBS New York's Shosh Bedrosian got in the water to see what the event is about.
"Put that bicycle next to the dead body.
No, the other dead body."
I was looking for this comment.😂
Absolutely in Bronx, you're going to find that.😅😂😅 I would never volunteer for this specifically for that reason.
🤣😅😂👍
Here's what I don't get.... E-bikes have only been around for a few years, and they are pretty expensive, so how & why are people throwing them into the river?
@@HighlanderNorth1 Stolen!
Don’t forget the drug needles and broken glass
The news should have advertised this so people could have helped. Good people live in the Bronx.
Yes
They always show this stuff after the fact. There are absolutely good people that would do this without any cameras or hype. I'm one of those over they years. The mindsets need to change on how to treat our natural spaces. Get it together people Earth Day is 365 days a year.
I see one black person volunteering…
@@Morales-nt6vi So right! Too many people have no respect -- for property, for their environment, for others or themselves.
@@blackerpanther3329 which actually is the approximate percentage of black people in the United States.
1.4 million reside in the Bronx. 20 volunteers. Story made it seem everyone cares. Just 20 or so. Proud of those 20 volunteers. Do same in my community, cleaning river banks and canals. Someone’s got to do it. Our population is like 6,000 and we get more than 20 volunteers
Remember it’s the Bronx
"Why should I do it when somebody else can do it for me? As soon as the clean up is finished bet your bottom dollar that I'll be the for the end of project pizza party and cake, who wouldn't for .... FREE FOOD!"
~Typical big city attitude
Most Bronxites are unaware of the River except those residing or working along it like on Webster Avenue alongside the Bronx River Parkway or Gunhill Road that intersects it.
I doubt all 20 people do not live in the Bronx
How sad that you focused on the negative, rather than the positive. I don't know what kind of publicity was done about this event, but if it isn't publicized, no one will know it's happening. Publicity costs money. Would you like to pay for having posters printed so they can be distributed to local stores and placed on telephone poles? If not, perhaps you want to rethink your negative post.
Thanks to all who volunteered.
Yea can you imagine in the Bronx where 1.5 million live that 20 people showed up, gee and this is on the news.
Better than nothing
@@MarioXcore1 Yea I guess when you live in the Bronx better then nothing is well better then nothing.
Thinkaboutit !! If no one cleans up the river it will just FILL UP with everything. And the bodies will be on the surface !!
brutal
They tell me I must buy a fishing license every year to help keep the water clean but the only people I ever see helping to clean the waters are volunteer's , who else !
Oh that money goes towards catering for the "studies".
I never even knew the Bronx had a river! This is great!
I live in Westchester County, north of the Bronx. The river starts many miles north.
@@gy2gy246 I imagined that it would. I couldn’t see the source coming from within the Bronx itself.
So, you've never heard of "The Bronx River Parkway"?
@@skineyemin4276 Nope.
It's just an open sewer.
What a great job these volunteers have done!! Thank you for doing this!!!
Excellent. I’m the one who picks up garbage up and down my road. Feels nice when someone else helps out
Same here. Thank you!
I have several miles of street in my neighborhood that my wife and I clean on a regular basis (once a week). I would rather pick it up than see it on my morning walk.
I’ve picked up a lot of garbage where I live and a neighbor went ballistic on me because some of our newspapers that we had in our recycling bin waiting to be picked up flew out and ended up in his yard and we went nuts. Apparently he yells and insults people he doesn’t like. There is another neighbor who lived next to us but moved out a few months ago didn’t use a garbage can and just left his garbage tied up in a bag at the curb and wild animals tore his open and garbage went into other peoples yards including ours but no apology there. It’s ok if he does it but if anything from ours flies around I get the 3rd degree. He would leave notes on my car because I parked too close to his grass which was actually our grass but my feet had to step on it while I got out of my car. Him and the other mean neighbor would inspect our garbage when I took it out and on another day I had flattened the cardboard boxes like he wanted but he claimed the wind blew them into his yard and he demanded I get string and tie them up. WTF? Those two neighbors break the HOA rules but I’m required to follow those and their own rules made up for the neighbors by them.
Kayaking in the middle of the city is a precious activity
Well done to everybody who turned out to help with the clean up.
People who dump rubbish into waterways don't seem to understand just how important these places are. Water is a precious commodity and essential to the health and well-being of us, our planet and the fragile ecosystems that live in and by water.
love how e-scooters end up in the river. I guess they are recycling the litium
People who dump their rubbish in waterways dump their rubbish everywhere! It’s got nothing to do with ‘not understanding the damage it does’, but everything to do with not being brought up right, with morals and decency.
People who dump just don't care.
I want to stand up but I have to type !! That's right !!!
One of the best things I've seen on RUclips in quite a while 👍 we could use a lot more of making the world a better place , thanks to the volunteers. 🇺🇲 True americanism 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Exactly ❤
I fondly remember a school trip to the Bronx river in 2004/5 when the Bronx River Alliance allowed our class to canoe the river. Glad they’re still going strong.
Volunteers doing a great job to keep their neighborhood clean especially that beautiful River for canoeing. Great job thank you
When I was 10 years old my Junior HS sent us into the Bronx River on the first Earth Day in 1970. I have a photo from the Scarsdale Inquirer of all of us waste deep in the river pulling out garbage and muck. It’s a miracle none of us died of some disease that spring LOL. Glad to see it’s still happening and sad to see it’s still needed.
“Waste” deep is the correct description.
Thank you volunteers!
I'm glad to see a natural place in an urban area, good for them.
I didn’t even know this existed. Great job
These people are doing excellent work, and are such a credit to their community. They deserve all the praise in the world.
This should be a regular event. I remember creek cleanup while living in Anchorage, AK. It's amazing how much garbage is thrown into our waterways.
My opinion is this should never have to be done if people would care about keeping rivers clean to start with.
@@jeffharper7579 Rain washes a lot of stuff into rivers.
Anchorage is beautiful. Saw a bald eagle for the first time in my life there
Congratulations!!! I live in Eastern TN and I work at a local small stone quarry and I eat my lunch in the end loader I run and a few days a month I see one to two pair of Eagles soaring around😊😊.
@@jeffharper7579 Awesome.
It does my heart good to see all these wonderful people working together for a common cause. Bravo to the volunteers! Thank you!
Good humans. 👍
Thank u to all.
👀 I’m speechless at this effort. Simply amazing. This should be a high school senior field trip every year by the local schools. Probably would be too much liability, but STILL.
We need more stories like this in the news day.
thank you all!👍🇺🇸
You guys are lucky. Here in Florida, our rivers have alligators. I would never volunteer to clean up a river in Florida.
SHh, dont let the word out. That's where we dump the gator baits.
I am in Los Angeles, USA and we don't have a problem with wild animals. Wild animals like alligators or monkeys! So, sorry, I have to laugh.
@@orchidorio Thanks. No problems with you laughing, or not encountering wild animals. Probably 40+ of the 50 states don’t have alligators.
Hats Off! to these dedicated volunteers
Excellent!! Well done people!❤️🎉
I had never heard of the Bronx River before today, but now I know there will be people caring for it going forward. You’ve made the difference!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
As an old, now transplanted, Bronx boy who remembers many days along that river and in park, thank you!
This looks like the opening of an episode of "Law and Order". It's not a mannequin. It's never a mannequin.
Seriously, great job folks. Thank you!
From New Mexico, Bless you all !!!!
Good job folks. Some communities make that an annual event and it makes a huge difference,and brings awareness to the issues.
Went there last fall with my family since we were in the area. It's truly beautiful and you wouldn't think that a short distance away there are busy streets and neighborhoods. Being there made me think what NYC used to be not too long ago. Thanks volunteers for this great effort. I will definitely go again around October.
Courageous generous volunteers
thank god for you volunteers
Good for you guys and gals!!! 👍🏻👍🏻
What a great thing they are doing. So nice to see this.....
The Bronx is beautiful in so many ways.
G'day to you! Well that was amazing, how would have thunk the Bronx had a River like that, I learned something new today, well done Guys n Gals for what you did! Perth Western Australia!
The river starts many miles north in Westchester County. I live just north of the Bronx, where the river becomes a beautiful lake in a park.
If I still lived in New York, I'd love to join these folks and help clean up that river. It has so much potential. I think it flows thru the botanical gardens and the Bronx Zoo.
What a bunch of beautiful brave souls. Bless you all.
I love this 💚🫶🏾
Take care of Mother Earth
Bravo volunteers! Very inspiring.
Thanks for your hard work,mother earth will recompense it,❤
Well done! People working together for a common good.
We need more of this in our Nation !
What happen to this river is a real reflection of the people who live in this neighborhood .
People love leaving Escooter rentals and citi bikes where ever they like, including the river. Absolutely garbage people litter the Bronx
Nice work!
👏👏👏👏👏👏For the volunteers
Such a caring community! Good on you Bronxers!❤
I’m from California and people have a really specific view in their head of California as I have a very specific view in my head of New York, but this looks like a beautiful and peaceful serene peace of nature in the middle of one of the biggest cities on earth. Good job.
The Bronx sits on the main state of New York which starts to get forest green and lush as you head north. There’s lots of nice pockets in the Bronx and including mansions, but people usually don’t known because middle-class families most likely lived there and they sort of keep it in a hush.
Thank you I remember my mom getting arrested in Denver for having us Cub scouts down on the river cleaning up and making the city look bad and now we have a boy scout Park in that very spot and hundreds of miles of bike paths along the rivers in Denver thanks to my mom so great to you guys you are as important as it gets
You know there's an assload of 40s down there. King cobra, Schlitz malt liquor bull, Colt 45 etc. etc. 🤔
And dirty needles and used rubbers.
Beautiful to see, thank you for sharing.
Seriously good job ladies and gentlemen. Respect and best wishes from Australia. 🙏
Many times on my drive home, 10 miles from my home there is a stretch of road with trees and bushes up on the hill🌲🌳. I have pictured myself getting together with at least 10 to 20 people and clearing up the area of all the garbage, like papers and stuff people have thrown out of their cars.
Kudos to these people for making their area that much better.
Outstanding Work
Long overdue but grateful!
Most EXCELLENT People!!!!!!! I wish I was there ta buy "ya'll" lunch.....
Thank to the volunteers that helped my community. ❤❤❤
Every resident of bronx should have volunteered
Thank you. Disgusting that ppl use water to dump.
All winners there folks.
Fantastic 😍
No bodies? I'm impressed.
Fish ate 'em.
They are going to edit that out for sure!
Not deep enough. OOPS 😂
An actually uplifting story. Go Bronx!
was expecting to find body parts
They get eaten completely by piranhas
Only 20 volunteers? That's actually kind of sad considering the number of people who live in that area.
Thanks to all the volunteers.
that’s my mom!!!
hi mom ✌️
Great role model.
Why aren't you helping her?
Mother's Day is right around the corner.
What a gift that would have made.
@@seeharvester im pregnant…
@@pddotd
My wife was still jogging and going to the gym when she was 8 months pregnant.
Good on each and every one of you folks!
Team work is the best way to get the job done ✅ 👏
I have helped with a similar event in New Hampshire in the past. The amount and variety of garbage pulled ashore was startling. There were newspaper vending machines grocery carts a car tire, and lots of bicycles.
It is a drainage ditch/creek. Anything in NYC that moves water is a river, even the sewer systems.
Nice 😊 I love that river! 🤗
Nothing beats the Colorado river it runs through multiple towns as well as Utah and Arizona. I used to take my Husky to the Colorado trail. Where the river is beautiful. It’s not a river without stones.
God bless the volunteers.
Good job!! Great to see you taking care of your local environment ❤ kudos
That’s awesome we should be doing that everywhere all our water waves got crap in them ❤
Thank you everyone who volunteered for this job?
Fabulous!!! Keep it going!!!
These people are awesome. Humans are typically lazy and mindless. I have seen this problem with rivers and waste around the world. To see these folks step up and help where others have failed is wonderful. Thanks everyone for a couple hours of your time.
My dad, born in 1912, grew up in the Bronx (Rosedale Avenue) and talked about swimming in the Bronx River back in the day. He mentioned that a neighborhood kid drowned when he got his foot caught in a milk can.
Thank you everyone!!!!
Awesome job to all involved. From Cape Town SA.
People from the community turning out to help "
20 volunteers.....
Population of the bronx: 1.4 million people
Outstanding! Thank you for your hard work and dedication.
There are great people willing to pitch in for their community. WTG volunteers!
Great job volunteers we all can help keep Mother Nature CLEAN 😎🫵🏼
Deserves a longer video.
Thank you 🙏
I was ASTOUNDED to see such nature in the BRONX, of all places! I had always thought it was wall-to-wall pavement!
Great work too all those involved,we got the same problem in the UK our canals have become dumping grounds.
When I was a child my Father would always keep the front yard clean including the gutter in front of their house going as far as sweeping the dirt up, I do it to this day at age 60, and teach my children that if everyone chips in how clean the city would be.
This is what we need our government to help....create beautiful areas everywhere possible in our urban environments...
Good decent people who clean this up!
Thank you all
Great job everyone 👏🏻I say BRAVO
Good job you guys and girls.
They need to hold this event once a year!
Hooray for the clean up crew!