Yonkers Gets $3.5 Million State Grant For Old Put Greenway Trail

$3.5M State Grant Clears Way For Greenway Linking Yonkers To Manhattan

by Zac Failla

Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano announced Friday that the city has been awarded a $3.3 million Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) grant from the DOT to construct the Yonkers Greenway, which will involve the conversion of an abandoned spur of the Old Putnam Railroad into a 2.2-mile trail.

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The TAP grant will also allow for city officials to continue designing and constructing the second and third phase of the Greenway proposal, which will lead into the downtown waterfront area, eventually connecting the Saw Mill River Daylighting project and ending at the Yonkers train station.

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