A man named Baron Ambrosia has become the first to swim through the length of Bronx in its filthy namesake river, which is contaminated with fecal bacteria.
According to the New York Daily News, a crowd of wellwishers chanted, 'Baron! Baron!' as Ambrosia reached dry land at Harding Park just before 7 p.m. on Saturday, eight hours after he departed from the Yonkers border seven-and-a-half miles to the north for a trip through murky, contaminated water.
After the voyage, Ambrosia exclaimed that the swim was completed and the Bronx was on top, along with saying he felt fantastic.
Ambrosia had been warned about the river's high levels of toxins, but claimed that he had never seen the river as clean as I saw it on Saturday, the report said.
Accompanied by a small flotilla of kayaks and canoes, Ambrosia meandered past the New York Botanical Gardens, the Bronx Zoo, two century-old dams and the Bronx River Houses, the report added.