King's Bridge
Historic site · Kingsbridge, New York
The bridge the neighborhood is named for, built in 1693 by Frederick Philipse at Marble Hill near what is now West 230th Street and likely erected by enslaved Africans. It spanned a now-filled-in section of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, roughly parallel to today's 230th Street, and is said to still be in place, having been buried when the creek bed was filled in.
History
Philipse was lord of Philipsburg Manor. After the American Revolution, Philipse Manor was forfeited to the state legislature, after which the King's Bridge was free of tolls. Both the neighborhood and the historic Town of Kingsbridge, annexed by New York City in 1874, take their name from the bridge.
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