Throggs Neck
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Throggs Neck (also known as Throgs Neck) is a neighborhood and peninsula in the south-eastern portion of the borough of the Bronx in New York City. It is bounded by the East River and Long Island Sound to the south and east, Westchester Creek on the west, and Baisley Avenue and the Bruckner Expressway on the north.
The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community District 10, and its ZIP Code is 10465.<ref name="NYCPlanning"/> Throggs Neck is patrolled by the 45th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.<ref name="NYPD 45th Precinct"/>
GeographyEdit
Throggs Neck is a narrow spit of land in the south-eastern portion of the borough of the Bronx in New York City. It demarcates the passage between the East River (an estuary) and Long Island Sound. "Throggs Neck" is also the name of the neighborhood of the peninsula, bounded on the north by Baisley Avenue and the Bruckner Expressway, on the west by Westchester Creek, and on the other sides by the River and the Sound.<ref name="NYCPlanning"/>
The neighborhood is at the northern approach to the Throgs Neck Bridge, which connects the Bronx with the neighborhood of Bay Terrace in the borough of Queens on Long Island. The Throgs Neck Lighthouse formerly stood at its southern tip. The northern approach to the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge is also within the Throggs Neck area. The large Ferry Point Park is divided by the Bronx/Whitestone Bridge into a Template:Convert west side made of soccer and cricket fields, NY Ferry stop‚ and a Template:Convert east side featuring a promenade, golf course and waterfront restaurant.
NameEdit
Originating from the surname "Throckmorton", the spelling of the area has been historically variable, with a mix of spellings with one "G" or two, with the traditional spelling being with two Gs.<ref>"The Winner by a Neck", The New York Times, January 4, 1998.Accessed February 17, 2021.</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> There is an urban legend that during development of the bridge that would bear the neighborhood's name, NYC Parks Commissioner and Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority Chairman Robert Moses officially shortened it to one G after deciding that two would not fit on many of the street signs, though many long-time residents continue to use the traditional spelling.<ref>Mitchell, Alex. "One 'g' or two? Throggs Neck has a longstanding identity crisis", Bronx Times, November 3, 2019. Accessed February 17, 2021. "Then Robert Moses came along. According to Ultan, the power broker, wanting to save money on road signs, began the one G spelling of Throggs Neck while planning the Throgs Neck Bridge and its subsequent expressway."</ref><ref>Video: Throgs Neck or Throggs Neck?</ref>
HistoryEdit
The peninsula was called Vriedelandt, "Land of Peace", by the New Netherlanders. The current name comes from John Throckmorton, English immigrant and associate of Roger Williams in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The Dutch allowed Throckmorton to settle in this peripheral area of New Amsterdam in 1642, with thirty-five others.<ref name="Slitherwood"/><ref>Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham, a History of New York City to 1898 (1999, p. 37, giving "Throgmorton").</ref> At this time, the peninsula was also known as Maxson's point as the Maxson family (Richard, Rebecca, John, etc.) lived there. Many of the settlers, including Anne Hutchinson and her family, were murdered in a 1643 uprising of Native Americans. Throckmorton returned to Rhode Island.<ref name="Slitherwood">Template:Cite book</ref> In 1668, the peninsula appeared on maps as "Frockes Neck". The peninsula was virtually an island at high tide.
In 1776, George Washington's headquarters wrote of a potential British landing at "Frogs Neck".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> At the bridge over Westchester Creek, now represented by an unobtrusive steel and concrete span at East Tremont Avenue near Westchester Avenue, General Howe did make an unsuccessful effort to cut off Washington's troops in October 1776; when the British approached, the Americans ripped up the plank bridge and opened a heavy fire that forced Howe to withdraw and change his plans; six days later he landed troops at Rodman's Neck to the north, on the far side of Eastchester Bay.<ref>WPA Guide p. 547</ref> A farm in the area owned by the Stephenson family was sold in 1795 to Abijah Hammond, who built a large mansion (later the offices of the Silver Beach Garden Corporation).
In the 19th century, the area remained the site of large farms, converted into estates. In about 1848, members of the Morris family purchased a large parcel of land there. They built two mansions and many cottages and service buildings. The Morris estates had a private dock in Morris Cove, at the end of what is now Emerson Avenue, where they had nearly a mile of shoreline.<ref name="Auction Throg 2010">"Auction Throg's Neck lots: Morris estates will sell 1,600 waterfront bungalow properties". The New York Times, August 6, 1922 accessed November 23, 2010.</ref> After the Civil War, Collis P. Huntington, the railroad builder, owned an extensive parcel,<ref>The WPA Guide to New York, (1939, repr. 1982), p. 546.</ref> which his heirs held until they were almost the last estate on Throggs Neck. Huntington's property was previously owned by Frederick C. Havemeyer Jr., a sugar magnate,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Havemeyer-Huntington mansion is now home to Preston High School, New York.
Throgs Neck Park, a Template:Convert public park<ref>NYC Parks: Throgs Neck Park</ref> that faces Throggs Neck from the opposite shore at the end of Myers Street, was acquired as a public place in 1836.<ref>McNamara, s.v. "Throgs Neck Park".</ref> From 1833 to 1856, the construction of Fort Schuyler brought in laborers and craftsmen, many of whom were immigrants from Ireland, to settle in the area with their families. By the late 19th century, the area had developed into a fashionable but more public summer resort, which also contained large German beer gardens,<ref>WPA Guide p. 546.</ref> to which the residents of Yorkville arrived by steamboat service up the East River. The 19th-century steamboat landing at Ferris Dock on Westchester Creek stood at present-day Brush Avenue north of Wenner Place; the road to it bore the name of the steamboat Osseo.<ref>McNamara, s.v. "Ferris Dock".</ref> The Ferris family were 18th-century residents, whose Ferris Point at the south-east corner of the Throggs Neck neighborhood now supports the Hutchinson River Parkway (formerly Ferris Lane)<ref>McNamara, s.v. "Ferris Lane".</ref> overhead ramp to the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge and Ferry Point Park.
In the decades after the 1898 incorporation of the Bronx into the City of Greater New York, transit lines were extended to the neighborhood, bringing in many Italian farmers and tradesmen. In the 1920s the large estates largely became converted into smaller row homes and densely built bungalow lots.<ref name="Auction Throg 2010"/> The Peters and Sorgenfrel families formed Silver Beach Garden (named for the color of the beach at low tide), a summer colony of bungalows that were later adapted for year-round use; most of the streets were named for flowers and trees found on the Hammond estate. Residents owned their houses but rented the land when they joined to buy it. Nearby to the north, a campsite for church youth transformed into a bungalow colony later named Edgewater Park.
In 1932, Fort Schuyler closed as an active military installation and became the campus for cadets of the State University of New York Maritime College. A 1929–39 pair of plans to expand the subway system with a Second Avenue Subway branch to Throggs Neck did not come to pass. By 1961, with the construction of the Throggs Neck Bridge, as well as the adjacent parkways, the neighborhood lost its comparative isolation. However, Throggs Neck was largely exempt from the severe urban decay that affected much of the Bronx in the 1970s.<ref name="New York Times, If you're thinking of living in Throgs Neck">Template:Cite news</ref>
The last two of several large and handsome 18th-century Ferris houses in the neighborhood lasted until the 1960s, when the James Ferris house overlooking Eastchester Bay was hastily demolished in 1962 and the Watson Ferris house was demolished in 1964 by its occupants, the Tremont Terrace Moravian Church. The James Ferris house had been commandeered by Admiral Richard Howe as his headquarters in October 1776, when James Ferris was sent to the prison hulks in New York harbor, where he died in 1780.<ref>McNamara, s.v. "Ferris House (1-7)"; WPA Guide, East Bronx map p. 545.</ref>
DemographicsEdit
The neighborhood has several beach clubs and a diverse housing stock, including middle-class homes, up-market waterfront condominiums, as well as the Throggs Neck Houses, built in 1953 as one of the first low-income public housing projects in New York City and later expanded twice. In 1984, the New York Times described Throggs Neck as one of the last middle- and upper-middle-class areas in the Bronx, noting the area "seems like a well-kept suburb".<ref name="New York Times, If you're thinking of living in Throgs Neck"/> Even in the mid-1980s, after the city failed to pave neighborhood streets properly, waterfront condominiums were selling for as much as $416,468 in 2005 dollars.<ref name="New York Times, If you're thinking of living in Throgs Neck"/> As of the 2000 Census, the median household income for census tracts within the neighborhood ranged from $18,000 to $85,000 in the less affluent tracts and well over $100,000 for the waterfront tracts near the Throgs Neck Bridge.<ref name="US Census Bureau, Income Map"/>
Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of Schuylerville, Throgs Neck, and Edgewater Park was 44,167, a change of 455 (1%) from the 43,712 counted in 2000. Covering an area of Template:Convert, the neighborhood had a population density of Template:Convert.<ref name=PLP5>Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010, Population Division - New York City Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016.</ref> The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 46.1% (20,348) White, 7.9% (3,479) African American, 0.2% (93) Native American, 3.2% (1,430) Asian, 0% (15) Pacific Islander, 0.5% (238) from other races, and 1% (450) from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 41% (18,114) of the population.<ref name=PLP3A>Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010, Population Division - New York City Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016.</ref>
The entirety of Community District 10, which comprises City Island, Co-op City, Country Club, Pelham Bay, Schuylerville, Throgs Neck and Westchester Square, had 121,868 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 81.1 years.<ref name="CHP2018">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Rp This is about the same as the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.<ref name=":21">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Rp<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Most inhabitants are youth and middle-aged adults: 20% are between the ages of between 0–17, 26% between 25 and 44, and 27% between 45 and 64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 9% and 18% respectively.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp
As of 2017, the median household income in Community District 10 was $59,522.<ref name="CB9PUMA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2018, an estimated 14% of Community District 10 residents lived in poverty, compared to 25% in all of the Bronx and 20% in all of New York City. One in eleven residents (9%) were unemployed, compared to 13% in the Bronx and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 45% in Community District 10, compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 58% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, Template:As of, Community District 10 is considered high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp
Police and crimeEdit
Community District 10 is patrolled by the 45th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 2877 Barkley Avenue in Throggs Neck.<ref name="NYPD 45th Precinct">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The 45th Precinct ranked 28th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:As of, with a non-fatal assault rate of 53 per 100,000 people, Community District 10's rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 243 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp
The 45th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 67% between 1990 and 2022. The precinct reported five murders, 13 rapes, 235 robberies, 265 felony assaults, 108 burglaries, 609 grand larcenies, and 323 grand larcenies auto in 2022.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Fire safetyEdit
Throggs Neck is served by two fire stations of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY).<ref>Template:Cite FDNY locations</ref> Engine Co. 89/Ladder Co. 50 is located at 2924 Bruckner Boulevard,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> while Engine Co. 72/Satellite 2 is located at 3929 East Tremont Avenue.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
HealthEdit
Template:As of, preterm births are more common in Community District 10 than in other places citywide, though births to teenage mothers are less common. In Community District 10, there were 110 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 10.3 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp Community District 10 has a low population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 7%, lower than the citywide rate of 14%, though this was based on a small sample size.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp
The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Community District 10 is Template:Convert, the same as the city average.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp Fourteen percent of Community District 10 residents are smokers, which is the same as the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp In Community District 10, 24% of residents are obese, 13% are diabetic, and 37% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp In addition, 25% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp
Eighty-seven percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is the same as the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 77% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", about the same as the city's average of 78%.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp For every supermarket in Community District 10, there are 7 bodegas.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp
The nearest large hospitals are Calvary Hospital, Montefiore Medical Center's Jack D. Weiler Hospital, and NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi in Morris Park. The Albert Einstein College of Medicine campus is also located in Morris Park.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Post office and ZIP CodeEdit
Throgs Neck is located within ZIP Code 10465.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The United States Postal Service's Throggs Neck Station is located at 3630 East Tremont Avenue.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
EducationEdit
Community District 10 generally has a lower rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city Template:As of. While 34% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, 16% have less than a high school education and 50% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 26% of Bronx residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp The percentage of Community District 10 students excelling in math rose from 29% in 2000 to 47% in 2011, and reading achievement increased from 33% to 35% during the same time period.<ref name=":17">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Community District 10's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is slightly higher than the rest of New York City. In Community District 10, 21% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, a little more than the citywide average of 20%.<ref name=":21" />Template:Rp<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp Additionally, 75% of high school students in Community District 10 graduate on time, the same as the citywide average of 75%.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp
SchoolsEdit
The New York City Department of Education operates the following public schools in Throggs Neck:<ref name="Zillow">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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- PS 72 Dr William Dorney (grades PK-5)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- MS 101 Edward R Byrne (grades 6–8)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- PS 304 Early Childhood School (grades PK-5)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Hospital Schools (grades K-12)
- Mott Hall Community School (grades 6–8)
The following private schools are located in Throggs Neck:<ref name="Zillow"/>
- St Frances De Chantal School (grades PK-8)
- Preston High School (grades 9–12)
- Monsignor Scanlan High School (grades 9–12)
- St Benedict School (grades PK-8)
LibraryEdit
The New York Public Library (NYPL)'s Throg's Neck branch is located at 3025 Cross Bronx Expressway Extension. The branch has operated since 1954 and moved to its current one-story building in 1974.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
TransportationEdit
The following MTA Regional Bus Operations bus routes serve Throggs Neck:<ref name=busbx>Template:Cite NYC bus map</ref>
- Template:NYC bus link: to Pelham Bay Park and Bay Plaza Shopping Center or Simpson Street station ({{#ifeq:{{{exclude}}}|2||Template:NYCS time 2Template:NYCS br}}{{#if:||}}{{#ifeq:{{{exclude}}}|5||Template:NYCS time 2}} trains) (via Bruckner Blvd and Story Ave)
- Template:NYC bus link: to 225th St station or Locust Point (via Williamsbridge Rd)
- Template:NYC bus link/Template:NYC bus link: to Throggs Neck or Morris Heights (via East Tremont Avenue)
- Template:NYC bus link SBS: to Jamaica, Queens or Bronx Zoo (via Cross Bronx Expressway Service Road)
- Template:NYC bus link: to Flushing, Queens or Co-op City (via Bruckner Blvd)
- Template:NYC bus link: express to Midtown Manhattan
Throgs Neck Landing was opened as part of NYC Ferry's Soundview route on December, 28th 2021.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="NYC Ferry Expansion 2019">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Throgs Neck Bridge and the Whitestone Bridge provide access to Queens and Long Island. Due to the proximity of the Bruckner Interchange, the crossroads of the Hutchinson River Parkway, the Bruckner Expressway, the Hutchinson River Expressway, the Cross-Bronx Expressway, and also the Throgs Neck Expressway and the New England Thruway, there is convenient highway access to Throggs Neck from many parts of the New York area.
Numerous roadways near the southern end of Throggs Neck are named in honor of Union generals from the American Civil War, including Philip Kearny, John Reynolds, Carl Schurz, Thomas Meagher, and Benjamin Prentiss. Another roadway is named for James Longstreet, a Confederate general who, once the war had ended, embraced Reconstruction and consequently became the object of intense Southern opprobrium.
In popular cultureEdit
Several television shows and movies have been filmed in Throggs Neck, including these films:
- Awakenings (1990)
- Summer of Sam (1999)
Television shows include:
- Episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Storage Wars: New York
- Scenes in The Leftovers
Notable peopleEdit
- Frank Bello (born 1965), bass player for the heavy metal band Anthrax<ref name=Anthrax>Freedlander, David. "Break Out The Cipro: It’s Anthrax Day in the Bronx", New York Observer, September 14, 2011. Accessed September 23, 2016. "Both Benante and Bello grew up in Throggs Neck, while Caggiano is a native of Pelham Parkway."</ref>
- Charlie Benante (born 1962), drummer for the heavy metal band Anthrax<ref name=Anthrax/>
- Simon M. Ehrlich (1852–1895), lawyer and judge
- Collis Potter Huntington (1821–1900), railroad magnate<ref>About the Library, East Bronx History Forum. Accessed September 23, 2016. "The library was officially founded in 1892 by Collis P. Huntington, a Southern Pacific Railroad magnate whose summer home was in nearby Throgs Neck."</ref>
- Christine Jorgensen (1926–1989), first transsexual celebrity, 1950s-60s, following surgical transformation in Denmark, 1952; born and raised on Dudley Avenue<ref>Docter, Richard. Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen, p. 13. Routledge, 2013. Template:ISBN. Accessed September 23, 2016. "George William Jorgensen Jr. was born May 30, 1926, at the Community Hospital in Manhattan and raised in the Throggs Neck district of the Bronx, a few miles north of his birthplace."</ref>
- Michael Kay (born 1961), sports broadcaster<ref>Raissman, Bob. "For Kay, Return is Fall Circle", New York Daily News, October 3, 1995. Accessed September 23, 2016. "Especially a guy like Kay, a homeboy out of Throgs Neck."</ref>
- Doug Marrone (born 1964), head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars<ref>Logan, Greg. "Stadium bowl makes Bronx's Marrone nostalgic", Newsday, December 27, 2010. Accessed September 23, 2016. "Marrone lived nine miles from old Yankee Stadium in Throgs Neck. To get to his house, you took the last exit before the western entrance to the bridge, Harding Avenue."</ref>
- Sal Mineo (1939–76), Actor, Academy Award Nominee<ref>Mineo, Sal. Sal Mineo: A Biography, p. 7. Three Rivers Press, 2011. Template:ISBN. Accessed November 6, 2020. "In a couple of years, the Mineos managed to repay some of their debt to friends and family, and the coffin business began to turn a small profit. In an effort to get their family away from the bad 'city' influences, they found a dilapidated, three-story, wood-shingle house in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx at 2485 Wenner Place near East 217th Street and the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge."</ref>
- Bill Polian (born 1942), Hall of Fame executive in the National Football League.Template:Citation needed
- T.J. Rivera (born 1988), infielder who played in Major League Baseball for the New York Mets.<ref>McCarron, Anthony. "Mets like what they have in T.J. Rivera, who comes with Mackey Sasser’s endorsement", New York Daily News, March 10, 2016. Accessed September 2, 2017. "Rivera, 27, is looking at his non-roster camp invite the only way he can — as a chance to 'show what I've got and compete.'... That's what he did growing up in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx, playing in Little Leagues there and in Parkchester."</ref>
- Ritchie Torres (born 1988), Congressman of New York's 15th congressional district.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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ReferencesEdit
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External linksEdit
- Throggs Neck Merchant Association
- Forgotten NY: Throgs Neck, NY
- Lighthouse Museum: Throgs Neck Lighthouse