97-653: 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
194-414: A new city charter . All former municipalities within the newly consolidated city were dissolved. New York City was originally confined to Manhattan Island and the smaller surrounding islands that formed New York County. As the city grew northward, it began annexing areas on the mainland, absorbing territory from Westchester County into New York County in 1874 ( West Bronx ) and 1895 ( East Bronx ). During
291-443: A college education or higher. 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. 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 ,
388-509: A county in themselves, or are completely separate and independent of any county. Each borough is represented by a borough president . Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island each have a Borough Hall with limited administrative functions. The Manhattan Borough President's office is situated in the Manhattan Municipal Building . The Bronx Borough President's office used to be in its own Bronx Borough Hall but has been in
485-873: A little more than the citywide average of 20%. Additionally, 75% of high school students in Community District 10 graduate on time, the same as the citywide average of 75%. The New York City Department of Education operates the following public schools in Throggs Neck: The following private schools are located in Throggs Neck: 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. The following MTA Regional Bus Operations bus routes serve Throggs Neck: Throgs Neck Landing
582-705: A longer relationship with Arabella and that he was the biological father of her son. Huntington died at his Camp Pine Knot , in the Adirondacks, August 13, 1900. Archer M. Huntington became a well-known Hispanist and founded The Hispanic Society of America , a museum and rare-books library dedicated to Spanish and Portuguese history, art, and culture, based in upper Manhattan, in New York City. Archer and his second wife, sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington , founded Brookgreen Gardens sculpture and botanical gardens near Murrells Inlet, South Carolina . He also founded
679-399: 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. The concentration of fine particulate matter , the deadliest type of air pollutant , in Community District 10 is 0.0075 milligrams per cubic metre (7.5 × 10 oz/cu ft), the same as
776-682: A merchant in Sacramento at the start of the California Gold Rush . Huntington succeeded in his California business. He teamed up with Mark Hopkins selling miners' supplies and other hardware. In the late 1850s, Huntington and Hopkins joined forces with two other successful businessmen, Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker , to pursue the idea of creating a rail line that would connect America's east and west. In 1861, these four businessmen (sometimes referred to as The Big Four ) pooled their resources and business acumen, and formed
873-435: A mix of spellings with one "G" or two, with the traditional spelling being with two Gs. 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
970-759: A peddler. About this time, he visited rural Newport News in Warwick County, Virginia in his travels as a salesman. He never forgot what he thought was the untapped potential of the area, where the James River emptied into the large harbor of Hampton Roads. In 1842 he and his brother Solon Huntington, of Oneonta, New York , established a successful business in Oneonta, selling general merchandise there until about 1848. When Huntington saw opportunity in America's West, he set out for California . He set up as
1067-603: A private dock in Morris Cove, at the end of what is now Emerson Avenue, where they had nearly a mile of shoreline. After the Civil War, Collis P. Huntington , the railroad builder, owned an extensive parcel, 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, and the Havemeyer-Huntington mansion
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#17327653740721164-542: A vibrant and progressive community. The 15 years of rapid growth and development led to the incorporation of Newport News, Virginia as a new independent city in 1896. It is one of only two independent cities in Virginia that were so formed without developing first as an incorporated town . Near the tracks of the C&;O's Hampton Branch was a normal school , dedicated in its earliest years to training teachers to educate
1261-511: Is 10465. Throggs Neck is patrolled by the 45th Precinct of the New York City Police Department . 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
1358-509: Is about the same as the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. 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. As of 2017, the median household income in Community District 10 was $ 59,522. In 2018, an estimated 14% of Community District 10 residents lived in poverty, compared to 25% in all of
1455-665: Is also located in Morris Park. Throgs Neck is located within ZIP Code 10465. The United States Postal Service 's Throggs Neck Station is located at 3630 East Tremont Avenue. Community District 10 generally has a lower rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018. 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
1552-546: Is also within the Throggs Neck area. The large Ferry Point Park is divided by the Bronx/Whitestone Bridge into a 110 acres (45 ha) west side made of soccer and cricket fields, NY Ferry stop‚ and a 420-acre (170 ha) east side featuring a promenade, golf course and waterfront restaurant. Originating from the surname "Throckmorton", the spelling of the area has been historically variable, with
1649-851: Is best known for his political activity in Washington, D.C., and California. At this stage he was based mostly in New York, and visited California about once a year. Stanford remained president, first of the Central Pacific and then of the Southern Pacific Company, until 1890. Huntington was agent and attorney for the Southern Pacific Railroad, vice-president and general agent for the Central Pacific Railroad, first vice-president of
1746-586: Is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York : The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens is Queens County, and Staten Island is Richmond County. All five boroughs of New York came into existence with the creation of modern New York City in 1898, when New York County (then including the Bronx), Kings County, Richmond County, and part of Queens County were consolidated within one municipal government under
1843-569: Is created when a county is merged with populated areas within it. The limited powers of the boroughs are inferior to the authority of the government of New York City , contrasting significantly with the powers of boroughs as that term is used in Connecticut , New Jersey , and Pennsylvania , where a borough is an independent level of government, as well as with borough forms used in other states and in Greater London . New York City
1940-403: Is now home to Preston High School, New York . Throgs Neck Park, a 0.44-acre (0.18 ha) public park that faces Throggs Neck from the opposite shore at the end of Myers Street, was acquired as a public place in 1836. 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
2037-477: Is often referred to collectively as the five boroughs , which can unambiguously refer to the city proper as a whole, avoiding confusion with any particular borough or with the Greater New York metropolitan area . The term is also used by politicians to counter a frequent focus on Manhattan and thereby to place all five boroughs on equal footing. In the same vein, the term outer boroughs refers to all of
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#17327653740722134-689: Is served by two fire stations of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). Engine Co. 89/Ladder Co. 50 is located at 2924 Bruckner Boulevard, while Engine Co. 72/Satellite 2 is located at 3929 East Tremont Avenue. As of 2018, 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). Community District 10 has
2231-572: 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%. For every supermarket in Community District 10, there are 7 bodegas . 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
2328-752: The Blue Ridge Mountains . It had been completed along this route as far as the upper reaches of the Shenandoah Valley when the War broke out. Officials of the Virginia Central, led by company president Williams Carter Wickham , realized that they would have to get capital from outside the economically devastated South in order to rebuild. They tried to attract British interests, without success. Finally, Major Wickham succeeded in getting Collis Huntington interested helping to complete
2425-906: The Bronx County Courthouse for decades. Since the abolition of the Board of Estimate in 1990 (due to a 1989 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court ), the borough presidents have minimal executive powers, and there is no legislative function within a borough. Executive functions in New York City are the responsibility of the Mayor of New York City , while legislative functions reside with the New York City Council . The borough presidents primarily act as spokesmen, advocates, and ceremonial leaders for their boroughs, have budgets from which they can allocate relatively modest sums of money to community organizations and projects, and appoint
2522-655: The Bruckner Expressway , on the west by Westchester Creek , and on the other sides by the River and the Sound. 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
2619-624: The Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad . Huntington helped lead and develop other major interstate lines, such as the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O), which he was recruited to help complete. The C&O, completed in 1873, fulfilled a long-held dream of Virginians of a rail link from the James River at Richmond to
2716-707: The Central Pacific Railroad company to create the western link of America's First transcontinental railroad . Of the four, Huntington had a reputation for being the most ruthless in pursuing the railroad's business; he ousted his partner, Stanford. Huntington negotiated in Washington, D.C. , with Grenville Dodge , who was supervising railroad construction from the East, over where the railroads should meet. They completed their agreement in April 1869, deciding to meet at Promontory Summit, Utah . On May 10, 1869, at Promontory,
2813-742: The George Washington Bridge , has also been called the sixth borough. Yonkers , in Westchester County, is often referred to as the sixth borough as well. Collis P. Huntington Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900) was an American industrialist and railway magnate. He was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford , Mark Hopkins , and Charles Crocker ) who invested in Theodore Judah 's idea to build
2910-774: The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, one of the largest of its kind in the world. Huntington's nephew, Henry E. Huntington (1850–1927), was also a railway magnate and founder of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California . He was active in Los Angeles, California , where he was the main force behind development of the Pacific Electric system. He
3007-617: 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
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3104-532: The New York metropolitan area as well as in other states, U.S. territories , and foreign countries. In 2011, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg referred to the city's waterfront and waterways as a composite sixth borough during presentations of planned rehabilitation projects along the city's shoreline , including Governor's Island in the Upper New York Bay . The Hudson Waterfront , in
3201-514: The Ohio River Valley . The new railroad facilities adjacent to the river there resulted in expansion of the former small town of Guyandotte, West Virginia into part of a new city which was named Huntington in his honor. Turning attention to the eastern end of the line at Richmond, Huntington directed the C&O's Peninsula Extension in 1881–82, which opened a pathway for West Virginia bituminous coal to reach new coal piers on
3298-691: The U.S. state of New Jersey , lies opposite Manhattan on the Hudson River , and during the Dutch colonial era , it was under the jurisdiction of New Amsterdam and known as Bergen . Jersey City and Hoboken , in New Jersey's Hudson County , are sometimes referred to as the sixth borough, given their proximity and connections by rapid transit PATH trains to the city. Fort Lee , in Bergen County , opposite Upper Manhattan and connected by
3395-470: The 1898 consolidation, this territory was organized as the Borough of the Bronx, though still part of New York County. In 1914, Bronx County was split off from New York County so that each borough was then coterminous with a county. When the western part of Queens County was consolidated with New York City in 1898, that area became the Borough of Queens. In 1899, the remaining eastern section of Queens County
3492-571: The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities). This site was later a key piece of the Abby and John D. Rockefeller Jr. 's massive restoration of the former colonial capital city. They developed Colonial Williamsburg , one of the world's major tourist attractions. Huntington did not neglect his namesake city at the other end of the C&O. In order to supply freight cars to
3589-592: The Big Four principals of the Central Pacific Railroad. The railroad's first locomotive C. P. Huntington , (transferred from the CPR), was named in his honor. With rail lines from New Orleans to the Southwest and into California, Southern Pacific expanded to more than 9,000 miles of track. It also controlled 5,000 miles of connecting steamship lines. Using the Southern Pacific Railroad, Huntington endeavored to prevent
3686-433: 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, as of 2018, Community District 10 is considered high-income relative to
3783-726: The Bronx in the 1970s. 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
3880-591: The C&O, and by extension to the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads as well, Huntington was a major financier behind Ensign Manufacturing Company . He based the company in Huntington, West Virginia, directly connecting to the C&O; Ensign was incorporated on November 1, 1872. After Huntington's death in 1900, his nephew, Henry E. Huntington , assumed leadership of many of his industrial endeavors. The younger man quickly sold off all of
3977-774: The C&O. Beginning in 1865, Huntington had been acquiring land in Virginia's eastern Tidewater region , an area not served by extant railroads. In 1880, he formed the Old Dominion Land Company and turned these holdings over to it. Beginning in December 1880, he led the building of the C&O's Peninsula Subdivision , which extended from the Church Hill Tunnel in Richmond east down the Virginia Peninsula through Williamsburg to
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4074-537: The Central Pacific (in which he did not). He first asked to delay payments for fifty years, then for a hundred years. His proposal to cancel the loans created a firestorm of opposition in California, covered colorfully in the newspapers by Ambrose Bierce ; when it was defeated in Congress in 1897, the governor of California celebrated by declaring a public holiday. Huntington lost the battle in Congress in 1899 and
4171-465: The Central through a cautiously conceived wagon road to the booming Comstock; gaining state and county aid, cost data, experience in construction and finance; thus discovering the immense liberality of the federal subsidy; mobilizing every resource and building through to Ogden on a revolving fund basis; netting perhaps a million by these means; then, half-reluctantly, beginning over, making the C.P. build
4268-528: The Chinese for their culture and industry, and condemned state and federal discrimination against American Indians and Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese immigrants. “If we deny to the individual, no matter what his creed, his color or his nationality, the right to justice which every man possesses,” he told a gathering of California civic and railway leaders in 1900, “there will be no enduring prosperity and [the nation’s] decline will surely follow. Collis Huntington
4365-438: 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. 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". At
4462-427: The S.P., and when it had, reversing the favorable leases, fattening up the Southern, reaping a second harvest from its bonds and stocks, also taken originally on construction contracts. Huntington died at his "camp," Pine Knot , in the Adirondack Mountains on August 13, 1900. He is interred in a Classical -style mausoleum at the Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx , New York. In addition to his railroad building, Huntington
4559-424: The South's many African-American freedmen after the Civil War and abolition of slavery. Both adults and children were eager to learn. Most southern blacks had been denied opportunities for education literacy before the Civil War. The school which developed to become modern-day Hampton University was first led by former Union General Samuel Chapman Armstrong . Perhaps the best known of General Armstrong's students
4656-409: The Southern Pacific Company, and a director of the two lines. His main duties were selling company stocks and bonds and acting as the chief lobbyist in Washington, where his two main challenges were to block federal support for a proposed rival transcontinental route, the Texas and Pacific Railway (in which he succeeded) and to postpone payment of the $ 28 million in cash loans the government had made to
4753-649: The Southern Pacific finally paid off the loans in 1909. Huntington described his activities in a series of private letters to David D. Colton, a senior financial official of his railroads. After Colton's death, litigation opened his files in 1883 and Huntington's letters proved a huge embarrassment, with their detailed descriptions of lobbying, payoffs, and bribes to government officials. They showed Huntington to be an active, profane, and cynical promoter of his companies and display his eagerness to use money to bribe congressmen. The letters did not demonstrate that any cash actually changed hands with any official, but they revealed
4850-413: The Southern Pacific holdings. He and other family members also continued and expanded many of the senior Huntington's cultural and philanthropic projects, in addition to developing their own. Historian Howard Jay Graham has summarized Huntington's business acumen: Huntington's career affords unique opportunity for study of the promoter's function—for observing "the entrepreneur as innovator"—hedging into
4947-460: The United States was celebrating the centennial of the surrender of the British troops under Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781, an event considered most symbolic of the end of American Revolutionary War . Three days after the last spike ceremony, on October 19, the first passenger train from Newport News took local residents and national officials to the Cornwallis Surrender Centennial Celebration at Yorktown on temporary tracks that were laid from
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#17327653740725044-424: The boroughs excluding Manhattan, even though the geographic center of the city is along the Brooklyn–Queens border. All five boroughs were created in 1898 during consolidation, when the city's modern boundaries were established. The Bronx originally included parts of New York County outside of Manhattan that had previously been ceded by neighboring Westchester County in two stages; in 1874 ( southern Yonkers , and
5141-432: 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
5238-441: 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
5335-427: The city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 243 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole. 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. Throggs Neck
5432-502: The city average. Fourteen percent of Community District 10 residents are smokers , which is the same as the city average of 14% of residents being smokers. 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. In addition, 25% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%. Eighty-seven percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which
5529-555: The city. In some document collections the boroughs used to be designated with a one-letter abbreviation: K for Brooklyn, M for Manhattan, Q for Queens, R for Staten Island (Richmond County), and X for the Bronx. The term "sixth borough" is used to describe any of a number of places that have been metaphorically called a part of New York City because of their geographic location, demographics (they include large numbers of former New Yorkers), special affiliation, or cosmopolitan character. They have included adjacent cities and counties in
5626-460: 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
5723-509: The community, with local features named in honor of each. Much of the railroad and industrial development which Collis P. Huntington envisioned and led are still important activities in the early 21st century. The Southern Pacific is now part of the Union Pacific Railroad , and the C&O became part of CSX Transportation , each major U.S. railroad systems. West Virginia coal is still transported by rail to be loaded onto colliers at Hampton Roads. Nearby, Huntington Ingalls Industries operates
5820-436: The counties are considered to be arms of the state government), rather than officials of the city government, they are not subject to the term limitations that govern other New York City officials such as the mayor, the New York City Public Advocate , members of the city council, or the borough presidents. Some civil court judges also are elected on a borough-wide basis, although they generally are eligible to serve throughout
5917-568: The country. Huntington defended himself: The motives back of my actions have been honest ones and results have redounded far more to the benefit of California than they have to my own. In 1968, Huntington was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum . Collis Potter Huntington was born in Harwinton, Connecticut , on October 22, 1821. His family farmed and he grew up helping. In his early teens, he did farm chores and odd jobs for neighbors, saving his earnings. At age 16, he began traveling as
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#17327653740726014-504: The entrance to the harbor of Hampton Roads from the Chesapeake Bay (and the Atlantic Ocean). The tracks were completed about 9 miles to the town which became Phoebus in December 1882, named in honor of its leading citizen, Harrison Phoebus . The new branch line served both the older Hygeia Hotel and the new Hotel Chamberlain , popular destinations for civilians. During the first half of the 20th century, excursion trains were operated to reach nearby Buckroe Beach , where an amusement park
6111-404: The harbor of Hampton Roads for export shipping. He also is credited with the development of Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company , as well as the incorporation of Newport News, Virginia as a new independent city . After his death, both his nephew Henry E. Huntington and his stepson Archer M. Huntington continued his work at Newport News. All three are considered founding fathers in
6208-449: The last middle- and upper-middle-class areas in the Bronx, noting the area "seems like a well-kept suburb". 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. 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
6305-485: The late 19th century, the area had developed into a fashionable but more public summer resort , which also contained large German beer gardens , 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 . The Ferris family were 18th-century residents, whose Ferris Point at
6402-415: The line. Beginning in 1871, Huntington oversaw completion of the newly formed Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) from Richmond across Virginia and West Virginia to reach the Ohio River . There, with his brother-in-law Delos W. Emmons , he established the planned city of Huntington, West Virginia . He became active in developing the emerging southern West Virginia bituminous coal business for
6499-472: The lower Peninsula, Collis and other Huntington family members and their Old Dominion Land Company were involved in many aspects of life and business. They founded schools, museums, libraries and parks among their many contributions. In Williamsburg, Collis' Old Dominion Land Company owned the historic site of the 18th-century capital buildings. This was transferred to the women who were the earliest promoters of what became Preservation Virginia (formerly known as
6596-424: The main line at the new Lee Hall Depot to Yorktown. No sooner had the tracks to the new coal pier at Newport News been completed in late 1881 than the same construction crews were put to work on what would later be called the Peninsula Subdivision's Hampton Branch. It ran easterly about 10 miles into Elizabeth City County toward Hampton and Old Point Comfort , where the U.S. Army base at Fort Monroe guarded
6693-408: The massive shipyard at Newport News. From his base in Washington, Huntington was a lobbyist for the Central Pacific and the Southern Pacific in the 1870s and 1880s. The Big Four had built a powerful political machine, which he had a large role in running. He was generous in providing bribes to politicians and congressmen. Revelation of his misdeeds in 1883 made him one of the most hated railroad men in
6790-405: The media, they are technically and legally the district attorneys of New York County and Kings County, respectively. The same goes for Staten Island. There is no such distinction made for the district attorneys of the other two counties, Queens and the Bronx, since these boroughs share the respective counties' names. Because the five district attorneys are, technically speaking, state officials (since
6887-522: The members of the 59 largely advisory community boards in the city's various neighborhoods. The Brooklyn and Queens borough presidents also appoint trustees to the local public library systems in those boroughs. Being coextensive with an individual county, each borough also elects a district attorney , as does every other county of New York State. While the district attorneys of Manhattan and Brooklyn are popularly referred to as "Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance, Jr. ", or "Brooklyn D.A. Kenneth P. Thompson " by
6984-707: The museum's hands after the death of his stepson, Archer. His last will directed that if his stepson should die childless (which he did), Huntington's Fifth Avenue mansion or the proceeds from the sale of the property would go to Yale University. He also made specific bequests totaling $ 125,000 to Hampton University (then Hampton Institute) and to the Chapin Home for the Aged. He was referred to in Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce as "Happy Hunty". Huntington
7081-420: The name of the county unchanged. There are hundreds of distinct neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs of New York City, many with a definable history and character to call their own. Since 1914, each of New York City's five boroughs has been coextensive with a county of New York State – unlike most U.S. cities , which lie within a single county or extend partially into another county, constitute
7178-585: 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. 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. This
7275-681: The north, on the far side of Eastchester Bay. 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
7372-807: The port at San Pedro from becoming the main Port of Los Angeles in the Free Harbor Fight . Following the American Civil War , efforts were renewed in Virginia to complete a canal or railroad link between Richmond and the Ohio River Valley. Before the war, the Virginia Board of Public Works and the Virginia Central Railroad had provided financial assistance to construct a state-owned link through
7469-453: The rest of the city and not gentrifying . Community District 10 is patrolled by the 45th Precinct of the NYPD , located at 2877 Barkley Avenue in Throggs Neck. The 45th Precinct ranked 28th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. As of 2018, 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
7566-773: The south-east corner of the Throggs Neck neighborhood now supports the Hutchinson River Parkway (formerly Ferris Lane) 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. The Peters and Sorgenfrel families formed Silver Beach Garden (named for
7663-478: The southeastern end of the Peninsula on the harbor of Hampton Roads in Warwick County, Virginia . Through the new railroad and his land company, coal piers were established at Newport News Point. It may have taken more than 50 years after Virginia's first railroad operated for the lower Peninsula to get a railroad, but once work started, it progressed quickly. In a manner he had previously deployed, notably with
7760-502: The southern states....Though it was politically unwise, Huntington ordered his companies to give equal employment and pay to black workers, and he publicly opposed the exclusions of black and other non-white children from public schools, as well as other “Jim Crow” restrictions then being enacted in the South and elsewhere. In newspaper columns and public speeches in the West, Huntington praised
7857-488: The tenor of Huntington's morals. His biographer says, he was vindictive, sometimes untruthful, interested in comparatively few things outside of business, and disposed to resist the idea that his railroad enterprises were to any degree burdened with public obligations. There is, on the other hand, no question with respect to his indomitable energy, his shrewdness in negotiation, his independence of thought and raciness of expression, and his grasp of large business problems. He
7954-406: The three eastern towns of Queens County that had not joined the city the year before—the towns of Hempstead , North Hempstead , and Oyster Bay —formally seceded from Queens County to form the new Nassau County . The borough of Staten Island, coextensive with Richmond County, was officially the borough of Richmond until the name was changed in 1975 to reflect its common appellation, while leaving
8051-487: The towns of Kingsbridge , West Farms , and Morrisania ) and then following a referendum in 1894 (towns of Westchester , Williamsbridge , and the southern portion of Eastchester ). Ultimately in 1914, the present-day separate Bronx County became the most recent county to be created in the State of New York. The borough of Queens consists of what formerly was only the western part of a then-larger Queens County. In 1899,
8148-542: The tracks of the Central Pacific Railroad joined with the tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad , and America had a transcontinental railroad. The joining was celebrated by the driving of the golden spike , provided for the occasion as a gift to the CPRR by San Francisco banker and merchant David Hewes. Beginning in 1865, Huntington was also involved in the establishment of the Southern Pacific Railroad with
8245-560: The traditional spelling. 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. At this time, the peninsula was also known as Maxson's point as
8342-484: The transcontinental railroad, and the line to the Ohio River, work began at both Newport News and Richmond. The crews at each end worked toward each other. The crews met and completed the line 1.25 miles west of Williamsburg on October 16, 1881, although temporary tracks had been installed in some areas to speed completion. Huntington and his associates had promised they would provide rail service to Yorktown where
8439-463: The war had ended, embraced Reconstruction and consequently became the object of intense Southern opprobrium. Several television shows and movies have been filmed in Throggs Neck, including these films: Television shows include: Borough (New York City) The boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that compose New York City . They are the Bronx , Brooklyn , Manhattan , Queens , and Staten Island . Each borough
8536-482: The waterfront tracts near the Throgs Neck Bridge. 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 2,068.82 acres (837.22 ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 21.3 inhabitants per acre (13,600/sq mi; 5,300/km). The racial makeup of
8633-464: Was a youth named Booker T. Washington . He later was hired as principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, another historically black college , and developed it into Tuskegee University . When Sam Armstrong suffered a debilitating paralysis in 1892 while in New York, he returned to Hampton in a private railroad car provided by Huntington, with whom he had collaborated on black education projects. In
8730-631: Was also related to Clarence Huntington , a president of the Virginian Railway who succeeded Urban H. Broughton . He was the son-in-law of the VGN's founder, industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers . He acquired a substantial collection of art, and was generally recognized as one of the country's foremost art collectors. He left most of his collection, valued at $ 3 million, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York , to pass into
8827-583: Was among the attractions for both church groups and vacationers. At the formerly sleepy little farming community of Newport News Point, Huntington began other, building the landmark Hotel Warwick and founding the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company . This became the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States. Huntington is largely credited with vision and the combination of developments which created and built
8924-603: Was called, married Prince Franz Edmund Joseph Gabriel Vitus von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg , a.k.a., Francis Hatzfeldt of the House of Hatzfeld , Germany , on October 28, 1889. They made their home at Draycot House, Draycot Cerne , Wiltshire , England . Huntington remarried on July 12, 1884, to Arabella D. Worsham (1851–1924). She brought to the marriage her son Archer Milton Worsham , from her first marriage, whom Huntington adopted that year. At fourteen, he became known as Archer Milton Huntington. There were rumors that Huntington had
9021-774: Was opened as part of NYC Ferry 's Soundview route on December, 28th 2021. 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
9118-559: Was sent to the prison hulks in New York harbor , where he died in 1780. 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
9215-508: Was split off to form Nassau County on Long Island , thereafter making the borough and county of Queens coextensive with each other. The term borough was adopted in 1898 to describe a form of governmental administration for each of the five fundamental constituent parts of the newly consolidated city . Under the 1898 City Charter adopted by the New York State Legislature, a borough is a municipal corporation that
9312-459: Was the dominant spirit among the small group of men who built up the Southern Pacific system, and that great organization remains his monument. According to historian Richard J. Orsi, [Huntington] was an ardent opponent of racial prejudice and discrimination....Huntington had been an abolitionist before the Civil War, and he later donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to support African American churches in California, and schools and colleges in
9409-521: Was the son of William and Elizabeth (Vincent) Huntington; born October 22, 1821, in Harwinton, Connecticut. His siblings were: Collis Huntington married Elizabeth Stillman Stoddard (1823–1883), of Cornwall, Connecticut , on September 16, 1844. She lived until 1883. They adopted her niece, Clara Elizabeth Prentice , born in Sacramento in 1860. Clara Elizabeth Prentice-Huntington (1860–1928), as she
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