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Go there in person and the see the real way with all the ghetto people that act up.

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Great video my favorite place to walk

Don't let what it looks/seems like today fool you. They called it Shantytown as the houses were half tent, half house, it became a full-time, cheap place to live during and after the Depression. In the 40's they used to pump raw sewage right into the sound, right there. In the 70's and '80s, they called it 'Sledgewater', the most filthy, disgusting ghetto where people mostly owned their own dilapidated homes, which didn't say much for an all-white neighborhood where everybody lived literal feet from one another and grew up together their whole lives. A place where the people loved to turn you into the co-op for absolutely no reason just to make themselves feel good, they even came up with different colored discriminatory stickers they made you put in your car's window so they would know if you were a renter or a 'shareholder'. Before it became a co-op, Edgewater was completely land rent owned by the Shaw family who owned it all before people started living there full time. This means you owned the house you lived in but paid monthly rent to the park for the land under your house but you did not own the land, Shaw had a 99-year lease with the residents until it went co-op. Thereafter any new residents who bought a house had no choice but to buy into the co-op. It was a place where you could never have anything nice, if the local scumbag punks kids couldn't steal it they would come in the middle of the night and vandalize or damage it any way they could, if it wasn't locked down they would steal it. Alcoholism and hardcore drug use were rampant in Edgewater notably among its youth especially down in the parking lot by the old trailer grocery and candy stores, also up by Sweeney's grocery, more than normal would a resident youth overdose and sometimes die right in the street or on the beach of Edgewater Park. Arson, burglary, car theft, breaking into cars, assaults, even murder. They would steal things right out of residents' yards was a popular pastime for the youth of Edgewater Park in the '70s, 80s, 90's right up to the early 2000s, and it still goes on as those then youth never left and now have children of their own. Numerous abandoned houses, the parking garages, the old boatyard, and an untold number of car fires were set ablaze by resident youths, some of whom I can testify to were even members of the park's volunteer firehouse. There used to be a big main community building located right behind the bus stop that had a grocery store, bakery, hardware store, post office, and others that was set on fire by certain residents back in the 1970s. Even co-op board members sons liked to vandalize things inside the park like blowing up the bus shelter glass panels with fireworks, among many other things. Edgewater Park was a place where neighbors were envious of one another, a place where people who didn't even know anything about you, never even spoken to once in their life had bad things to say about you because they went on what others they heard say about you behind your back. Edgewater Park is/was a place where the people who knew you all their lives would get personal satisfaction from hearing that you were in a bad way, this was because they in their own lives were so miserable that they wanted to bring you down with them and make your life more miserable than theirs was, that's what living in Edgewater Park was all about...

As a kid in the early 60s I'd walk along the bronx river to the allerton baseball fields, french charlies and frisch field from pelham parkway , for me the river was a place of serenity in the middle of the the powerful bronx of apartment bldgs and el train lines.

Many bodies were dumped there.

It's a nice quiet area. With its own private beaches make Edgewater Park Owners/Coop a great place in the Bronx to live. A place where day or night you never hear the city sounds, with the exception of the highway breathing.

“Stink Creek” The last three bridges are the “newest”

@Bike the BRONX 9465==All commenters=PLEASE let those """PATROLLING GUYS""" keep the area under """CLOSE WATCH""" as those neighbors have the OLD WAYS about them and PRESERVE THIER TOWNSHIP!!!! I walk from MARINA DEL RAY (southern tip THROGGS NECK) all the way up to PELHAM BAY PARK once monthly and NOT a scrap of refuse/bottles/debri along EVERY BLOCK all tru SAINT RAYMONDS CEMETERY*CAMPBELL DRIVE*COUNTRY CLUB ROAD*TREMONT AVENUE*PROVIDENCE REST HOME*VILLA MARIA ACADEMY*LORETTAS PIZZA☆ (have to pitch in LORETTAS on DEAN AVENUE!!!) So lets keep the ENTIRE THROGGS NECK (2G,s) as if it is STILL 1960☆☆☆☆

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Love the video...I did a canoe run with Hutchinson River Restoration Project years ago. I was a co-founder in the beginning concentrating on cleanups and sharing info.

China life??? Have fun...

The more you know

Not lying I just did my research

The toxins pulled from this Garbage mound are put into tanks and transported to the Sewage treatment plant then they are released into the East River by DEP?

In which area in Pelham bay park could I get there I was there yesterday with my girlfriend and I couldn’t find that location area which is the river

My father, George Mortensen, was in the class of '38. He would go on to have a storied maritime career and is an honored graduate. but it all started here. I grew up just across the water on the Point. Great memories and a great institution.

I remember driving by as a kid while it was still active. The smell was unbearable. I still have visions of it with thousands of seagulls hovering over it waiting to eat. Its no wonder there is such a high concentration of cancer victims in our neighborhood.

Maybe you can upload screenshots with gps locations into google maps. There is very little there now. It will show up as little blue dots on maps if you have 360 pictures.

did they pray to these ghosts in the landscape! Wow!! that is pure poetry thank you Bike!

Memories thank you for recording this same path I use to take 16 yrs ago .

I think howerton shaved his hair for the movie, i remember him having weird looks for the always sunny podcast unless he wore a baldcap for that

Thanks for the video. I grew up in Throggs Neck and spend 4 wonderful years at Maritime in the 80's. Wouldnt have traded it for any other school.

Because practically when you work, the only thing you do is go to sleep on your property and maybe one day a year you receive a person

But what are the policies of that site because I am interested in buying a house there because the prices are very cheap and compared to all the prices you can live because you just go

Back? They never left lol kinda famous for that

I didn’t know the Northside was open. Thanks

The only river in NYC!

Wow I am amazed. I live not too far, and I didn’t know that until a little while ago. Robert Moses is who I heard who put the landfill there. Absolutely terrible, it used to be a beach.

Thank You! I've always wondered what that was like

Split Rock Road, a suburban vestige of which still exists in Pelham Manor, used to run in front of the rock and through the golf club ; that part still exists as a golf cart trail. Before being cut and the rock isolated, it was a quiet picnic spot overlooking the Bronx to which my father used to go (consruction on the thruway began in the mid-1950s).

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Excellent video, are there trail’s for walking to Orchard Beach?

Great video. I remember passing by the Hutchinson River numerous times on the highways and local streets and recall even more industry and barge traffic. Definitely agree that the River should remain an industrial thoroughfare balanced by major cleanup and better public access and creation of well maintained parks.

Didn't know Hart Island was used as a mass grave. Great visuals !

Nice...... you went right past my marina at the Gas dock. czcams.com/video/9VcSFWGV8ec/video.html

At least your destination was a pleasant place to ride. The bridge is interesting enough but the traffic is tough on upper Bdwy.

I literally got hit yesterday trying to bike to my local library 🔥 fractured leg and broken arm

Thank you for uploading this! I take the bridge sometimes to explore the area. I love Van Cortland Park and should visit there soon. Citi Bike stations are nearby (I don't own a bike right now).

wow...when did they do this? I heard about a plan for some changes, but it sounded like in the distant future. It's one way bike lane so does that mean there is path on the other side of the Parkway now too? It pretty wide too. Widest bike lane in NYC lol.

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It’s spelled Throggs Neck Bridge, NOT Throgs Neck Bridge

I worked up there a bit and loved the commute. That park is special for its natural habitat.

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I’m watching CZcams videos on my so-called smart TV. Interesting that this popped up as a suggestion. Tomorrow, October 29, 2022, is Maritime College’s homecoming Day. I’m Class of 1971, and considering getting up early enough to make the trek from eastern Long Island.

How could you own land that was occupied by other people? There were people living here before the British, Spaniards, and French. Why are the Indians always the bad ones? I guess if you are conquered you are right, Right.

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