"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.