Former EPA Region 2 Administrator Lisa Garcia
As a child, Lisa Garcia spent her summers in the South Bronx, where playgrounds had more cracked pavement and asphalt than grass.
She considered herself outdoorsy, despite the outdoors looking different in the working-class neighborhood of Soundview.
Literally no one I grew up with knew that there was actually a Bronx River.
The 24-mile waterway, New York City's only freshwater stream, runs beneath the Bruckner Expressway and Sheridan Boulevard and parallel to the Bronx Parkway.
Green spaces were squeezed into pockets between concrete.
Author's summary: Lisa Garcia reflects on her childhood in the South Bronx.