Throgs Neck, the Bronx: Fort Schuyler at the Peninsula's Tip

Fort Schuyler holds the southeastern tip, where the East River meets Long Island Sound, and SUNY Maritime College's address there is 6 Pennyfield Avenue. Inside the fort are the Stephen B. Luce Library, administrative offices, the Marine Transportation Department and the Maritime Industry Museum, established in 1986. The Havemeyer-Huntington mansion, at 2780 Schurz Avenue, is Preston High School. Monsignor Scanlan High School is at 915 Hutchinson River Parkway and St. Joseph's School for the Deaf at 1000 Hutchinson River Parkway — two addresses on one road, and two halves of what was a single campus until the parkway extension cut it in two in 1939. The New York Public Library's Throg's Neck branch is at 3025 Cross Bronx Expressway; a Sesame Street mural covers the north wall of its courtyard, and the branch is fully accessible, with collections for adults, young adults and children.

The Throgs Neck Bridge crosses from the peninsula to Bay Terrace in Queens, carrying Interstate 295. Othmar Ammann designed it, as he designed the George Washington, Bronx–Whitestone, Verrazzano-Narrows and Triborough bridges. Ground was broken on October 22, 1957 and the bridge opened on January 11, 1961, at a construction cost of $92,000,000. It is a suspension bridge of six lanes, 11,250 feet (3,430 m) long including approaches, with a center span of 1,800 feet (550 m), towers 346 feet (105 m) tall and 142 feet (43 m) of clearance below; each main cable is made of 37 strands of 296 wires, 10,952 wires to a cable. It was built to relieve the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge, two miles west. Twenty thousand vehicles crossed in its first twelve hours, 16.4 million in 1961, its first full year, and daily traffic in 2016 was 119,249. Peregrine falcons have nested on the bridge since at least 1983. Tolls as of January 4, 2026 were $12.03 by mail, $7.46 with a New York E-ZPass and $9.79 at the mid-tier E-ZPass rate.

Locust Point is a related area within Throggs Neck, bounded by Harding Avenue to the north, the Throgs Neck Bridge to the east, and Eastchester Bay: 0.416 square miles, with a population of 1,479 and a median income of $85,072 as of 2011. It was originally Wrights Island, after its owner Captain J. T. Wright, and then Locust Island, until the waterway separating it was filled — the same landfill that carries the Throgs Neck Bridge's northern ramp and toll plaza — turning the former island into a peninsula. The Locust Point Yacht Club occupies the outermost block before the bay, at 21 Longstreet Avenue. Michael Kay is a former resident.

Community District 10 is patrolled by the 45th Precinct of the NYPD, at 2877 Barkley Avenue in Throggs Neck. Two FDNY stations stand in Throggs Neck: Engine Company 89 and Ladder Company 50 at 2924 Bruckner Boulevard, and Engine Company 72 with Satellite 2 at 3929 East Tremont Avenue.

The New Netherlanders called the peninsula Vriedelandt, "Land of Peace." The current name comes from John Throckmorton, an English immigrant and an associate of Roger Williams, whom the Dutch allowed to settle the area in 1642 with thirty-five others; at the same time the peninsula was also known as Maxson's point. Many of the settlers, Anne Hutchinson among them, were killed in a 1643 uprising, and Throckmorton returned to Rhode Island. By 1668 the peninsula appeared on maps as Frockes Neck, and it was virtually an island at high tide.

In 1776 George Washington's headquarters wrote of a potential British landing at Frogs Neck. It came that October. At the bridge over Westchester Creek, now represented by an unobtrusive steel and concrete span at East Tremont Avenue near Westchester Avenue, General Howe made an unsuccessful effort to cut off Washington's troops; 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 Howe landed troops at Rodman's Neck to the north, on the far side of Eastchester Bay.

A farm owned by the Stephenson family was sold in 1795 to Abijah Hammond, who built a mansion that later became the offices of the Silver Beach Garden Corporation. The Morris family purchased land around 1848 and built two mansions on it. The estate that had belonged to Havemeyer and then to Collis P. Huntington carried the Havemeyer-Huntington mansion, which is now home to Preston High School. Silver Beach Garden was formed by the Peters and Sorgenfrel families.

People born or raised in Throggs Neck include Christine Jorgensen, the first transgender celebrity of the 1950s and 1960s, following her surgical transformation in Denmark in 1952, who was born and raised on Dudley Avenue; Doug Marrone, head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars; Bill Polian, a Hall of Fame executive in the National Football League; and Frank Bello, Charlie Benante, Michael Kay, Sal Mineo, T.J. Rivera and Ritchie Torres.

No subway line reaches Throgs Neck. A plan drawn between 1929 and 1939 for a Second Avenue Subway branch to Throggs Neck never materialized. The nearest subway is Westchester Square–East Tremont Avenue, at the intersection of East Tremont and Westchester Avenues, in Westchester Square and on the border of the Pelham Bay neighborhoods; its northbound platform gives a view of the Bronx–Whitestone and Throgs Neck Bridges. Buhre Avenue station, at the intersection of Buhre and Westchester Avenues, is in Pelham Bay.

Buses serve the neighborhood instead. The routes include the Bx8, the Bx40 and Bx42, the Q44 SBS, the Q50 and BxM9 express service. The Bx8 runs between Locust Point, at Longstreet Avenue and Tierney Place, and Williamsbridge, at East 226th Street and White Plains Road, by way of Throgs Neck Boulevard, Crosby Avenue, Williamsbridge Road and Bronxwood Avenue, connecting at its northern end to the 225th Street station on the IRT White Plains Road Line, served by the 2 and 5; some rush hour trips terminate or originate at Westchester Square. The Bx40 and Bx42 connect Morris Heights, at River Park Towers, with SUNY Maritime College and Throgs Neck at Harding Avenue and Emerson Avenue.

No Metro-North station serves Throgs Neck. Penn Station Access's Phase One is adding four Metro-North stations in the Bronx — Co-op City, Morris Park, Parkchester/Van Nest and Hunts Point — and Throgs Neck is not among them.

NYC Ferry's Throggs Neck stop opened on December 28, 2021, when the Soundview route was extended there. The Soundview route itself launched on August 15, 2018, serving East 34th Street in Manhattan, and a Stuyvesant Cove stop was added in May 2020. In July 2025 the New York City Economic Development Corporation announced a plan to merge the Rockaway and Soundview routes, finalized in November 2025.

By road, the Throgs Neck Bridge carries Interstate 295 between the peninsula and Bay Terrace in Queens.