THROG(G)S NECK, Bronx

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Like “orthopaedic”/”orthopedic”, Throgs Neck in the Bronx can be spelled differently depending on where you’re from. The neighborhood in the southeast Bronx was named for a very early British settler, John Throckmorton, who arrived in the peninsula now capped by Fort Schuyler and the State University of New York Maritime College in 1642. Throckmorton had had religious [...]

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