Mosholu Parkway

Mosholu Parkway is a landscaped boulevard and linear park stretching from the Grand Concourse eastward to Bronx Park, passing through the Norwood and Bedford Park neighborhoods. Like its companion Pelham Parkway, Mosholu Parkway was designed in the 1880s as a grand tree-lined corridor connecting the Bronx's major parks.

The parkway's name is derived from a Lenape word variously translated as 'smooth stones' or 'small stream,' references to the natural features of the Bronx landscape before urbanization. The indigenous place name preserves a connection to the people who inhabited this land for millennia before European settlement.

Mosholu Parkway features landscaped medians, pedestrian paths, benches, and bicycle routes along its length. The tree-lined corridor creates a green connection between the Grand Concourse (the borough's central boulevard) and Bronx Park (home to the Bronx Zoo and Botanical Garden), forming part of the Bronx's original park system.

The neighborhoods along the parkway, including Bedford Park and Norwood, are residential communities with a mix of apartment buildings and modest homes. The parkway provides green space and recreational walking routes for residents of these neighborhoods.

Mosholu Parkway represents the 19th-century vision of a connected park system, where grand landscaped boulevards would link major parks into a unified green network. That vision, conceived over 140 years ago, continues to serve the Bronx with a tree-shaded corridor that connects nature, neighborhood, and the heritage of indigenous land stewardship.