Congressman
Joseph Crowley
Fighting for the People of Throgs Neck
"While
Washington, D.C. may be 250 miles away, the people of my Congressional
District are always forefront on my mind, and everyday I have
the honor of serving you in Congress, your concerns will be paramount."
- Achieving
a deal with both the community and Iroquois Gas to utilize a
water route - as opposed to an upland route through Throgs Neck
- for the construction of a natural gas pipeline
- Fighting
for and winning $100,000 for an EPA study of the air and noise
pollution surrounding Throggs Neck resulting from LaGuardia
Airport
- Bringing
over $4.7 Million to Montifiore Medical Center and $3 Million
to Albert Einstein College of Medicine to improve health care
services for Throggs Neck residents
- Delivering
more then $7.1 million in funding to Bronx area public schools
to provide greater technology in the classroom, better after-school
programming and increase English language programs for Limited
English proficient students
- Securing
millions in additional Federal assistance for the Bronx VA Medical
Center, including funding to make up for budget shortfalls,
reimbursement for costs relating to care given on September
11 and covering additional Bronx veterans
Throgs
Neck
Throgs Neck is a neighborhood in the northeastern Bronx, lying
on a peninsula overlooking Long Island Sound to the north and
east and the East River to the south. The area was called Vriedelandt
by the Dutch and derives its current name from John Throckmorton,
n Englishman whom the Dutch allowed in 1642 to settle a colony
in the area, which was eventually driven out by Indian uprisings.
The peninsula was mapped as Frockes Neck in 1668, and General
George Washington wrote of Frogs Neck in his journal during an
invasion of four thousand red- coats and Hessians in 1776. In
the nineteenth century the area became the site of estates and
farms: wealthy squires established summer residences and Irish
immigrants worked as servants and tenant farmers. The construction
from 1833 to 1856 of Fort Schuyler drew laborers, stonemasons,
and other craftsmen and their families to the area, which in late
century became a fashionable summer resort. When all of what is
now the Bronx became part of New York City in 1895 the expanding
transit lines spurred an influx of Italian farmers and tradesmen.
Old landowners sold out to developers, and soon rows of private
houses covered what had been cultivated estates. Fort Schuyler
ceased being an active military installation in 1932 and then
became the campus for the cadets of the New York State Maritime
College. The neighborhood changed again in 1961 when the Throgs
Neck Bridge was completed, and the Throgs Neck, Cross Bronx, and
Bruckner expressways ended its comparative isolation. Throgs Neck
has several beach clubs and marinas, and a diverse housing stock
that includes much modest middle-class housing, expensive beachfront
condominiums such as White Beach, former summer resorts such as
Silver Beach and Edgewater Park that have been converted to cooperative
ownership, and Throgs Neck Houses, begun in 1953 as one of the
first low-income housing projects in the city.
John McNamara: History in Asphalt: The Origin of Bronx Street
and Place Names (New York: Bronx County Historical Society, 1984)
John McNamara: McNamara's Old Bronx (New York: Bronx County Historical
Society, 1989)
John McNamara, Encyclopedia of New York City, Edited by Kenneth
T. Jackson. New Haven, Yale University Press. 1995.
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