Dart EastRise Westphal

Dart Westphal, President, Mosholu Preservation Corporation

Dart Westphal, Mosholu Preservation Corporation

Dart Westphal, 718-324-4461

Dart Westphal, Mosholu Preservation Corp.; Bronx Council for Environmental Quality

Dart Westphal, President dwestphal@mpcbronx.org

Water - Dart Westphal

Dart WestphalBronx Council on Environmental Equality:The generation of people that created a lot of Bronx institutions in the '60's and '70's from the museum to the Council for Environmental Equality to the Bronx Council on the Arts, really created some organizations that have helped the Bronx over the years that have gotten us a little bit ahead in arts and environment.We are the borough of parks.A quarter of the Bronx is parkland.I always say that it means the parks are important to us because if the parks are dirty, a larger percentage of our borough is dirty.The water to the city comes though the Bronx.The trains all come through here to Manhattan.

Dart "EastRise" Westphal - Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, Bronx River

Dart Westphal has volunteered in parks for over 22 years.He has worked with many organizations including the South Bronx Open Space Task Force, the Bronx Greenway Committee, and the Bronx River Restoration Team.His mission is to help communities along the Bronx River gain access to the waterway and to promote and organize restoration projects along the River.In 1987, he began working with students from Middle School 80 and Dewitt Clinton High School to plant tulips along Mosholu Parkway.During the same period, Dart gave bus and boat tours of the Bronx with Bronx Council for Environmental Quality.Dart was a member of the Bronx Greenway Committee that held the first annual Bronx Parks Speak-Up.He is a former president of the Bronx Council of Environmental Quality, and a member of the Boards of the Friends of Van Cortland Park and the Harlem River Valley Development Corporation.Most recently, Dart has been involved in the Golden Ball event on the Bronx River, and has worked to bring more people onto the river on canoe trips.He is also involved in the restoration of the Bronx River Forest, planning a workshop and clean-up day in September to raise awareness of the forest.Dart's tireless energy and good humor inspire all those who work with him to continue their commitment to parks and open space in the Bronx.

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