The High Bridge Festival on Saturday, July 25 celebrated the recently reopened pedestrian walkway on NYC’s oldest standing bridge. Elected officials joined with community members for a celebration featuring programming from more than 20 community groups including a public art installation, walking tours of the bridge, a “Bridge Making Workshop” presented by the Bronx Children’s Museum, and live entertainment by Jose Peña Suazo y La Banda Gorda.

The Bronx Children’s Museum provided programming.
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Assemblywoman Latoya Joyner and Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson celebrated the popular reopening of the High Bridge.
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Joely (l) and Hailey Saravia posed in turn-of-the-century props and backgrounds.
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