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Pedestrians pass the One World Trade Center, center, amidst a smokey haze from wildfires in Canada on June 7, 2023, in New York. 
This past July, on one of the hottest days of New York City’s hottest summer on record, I stood on the green banks of the Bronx River with Siddhartha Sánchez, the executive director of the Bronx River Alliance.
