Alexander Levi and Amanda Schachter's Bronx River Crossing proposes a reconsideration of the Bronx River as a spine capable of weaving social and spatial networks across the borough. Bronx River Crossing coincides with Levi and Schachter's current design of the Bronx River Community Charter School (BCCS) to be located near the Bronx River, and the school's plan to make the river a main line of their curriculum emphasizing ecology and community activism. The project complements current ongoing efforts for ecological reclamation by local activists—from the Bronx River Alliance's restoration of the river's natural ecology and watershed to Rocking the Boat, a boat-building initiative begun at a Southwest Bronx junior high school—to reveal and create physical links between neighborhoods, institutions and public space along the river.

During their fellowship term, Levi and Schachter will launch a large-scale on-site workshop bringing university students and professionals in architecture, urban planning and ecology together with local middle school students and residents to envision and realize physical interventions along the waterway. Based on the educational activities they have previously realized in Spain, the workshop will take place at several encampments along the Bronx River over the course of one week. In conjunction with their community-based work, Levi and Schachter will pursue research into incidental urban spaces throughout the five boroughs—at elevated subway stops crossing over avenues, along parkway embankments, and behind commercial and industrial strips—as models for thinking about ways that natural features along the Bronx River waterway might be rewoven into the city fabric.