The Bronx

===Maritime heritage===
[[File:Bronx Zoo - NY - USA - panoramio.jpg|thumb|The [[Bronx Zoo]] is the largest zoo in New York City, and among the largest in the country.]]
The [[peninsula]]r borough's maritime heritage is acknowledged in several ways. The City Island Historical Society and Nautical Museum occupies a former public school designed by the New York City school system's turn-of-the-last-century master architect [[C. B. J. Snyder]]. The state's [[SUNY Maritime College|Maritime College]] in [[Fort Schuyler]] (on the southeastern shore) houses the [[Maritime Industry Museum]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sunymaritime.edu/Maritime%20Museum/index.aspx |title=Maritime Industry Museum |access-date=August 21, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725015411/http://www.sunymaritime.edu/Maritime%20Museum/index.aspx |archive-date=July 25, 2008 }}</ref> In addition, the Harlem River is reemerging as [[Sculling|"Scullers' Row"]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/harlemrivercr.org/hrcr |title=Home|website=sites.google.com}}</ref> due in large part to the efforts of the Bronx River Restoration Project,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bronxriver.org/puma/images/usersubmitted/greenway_plan/ |title=Bronx River Ecological Restoration and Management Plan |website=broxriver.org |date=August 14, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080814050737/http://www.bronxriver.org/puma/images/usersubmitted/greenway_plan/ |archive-date=August 14, 2008}}</ref> a joint public-private endeavor of the city's parks department. [[Canoeing]] and [[kayaking]] on the borough's namesake river have been promoted by the Bronx River Alliance. The river is also straddled by the [[New York Botanical Gardens]], its neighbor, the [[Bronx Zoo]], and a little further south, on the west shore, Bronx River Art Center.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bronxriverart.org |title=Welcome |publisher=Bronx River Art Center}}</ref>