While I was up on top of the promenade I happened to glance down and see a ramp going down from near the Visitor’s Center. I wonder where that goes, I thought and went down to take a look.

It turns out that since 2016 there’s been a new park that I didn’t even know existed.

According to Ossining Patch (In a 2016 article entitled: Ossining Opens New Greenway in the Sing Sing Kill):

Ossining will celebrate its newest park, the Sing Sing Kill Greenway, with a ribbon-cutting and tour on April 13 as part of a ‘Smart Water’ series of events.

The greenway gives access for the first time in decades inside the ravine that the Kill Brook carved over millennia in its headlong journey from the Ossining hills to the Hudson River.

“The Sing Sing Kill Greenway is an example of environmental ingenuity and maximizing the benefit of public investment,” said Village of Ossining Mayor Victoria Gearity in a prepared statement. “We’re taking a hard look at ways we can responsibly provide for our current needs, while looking ahead to the needs of future generations – all while making the most of taxpayer dollars. Thanks to innovative thinking from the village engineer, a required sanitary sewer upgrade has been transformed into a magnificent public greenway through the heart of downtown Ossining. We invite the public to celebrate in its beauty.”

It was a pleasant, if rather short walk along the ‘Kill’ (Dutch for creek or water channel) with good view of the double arched bridge.

Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.

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