SOUNDVIEW

THE BOUNDARIES OF THIS RATHER LARGE COMMUNITY are E. Tremont Avenue on the north, White Plains Road and a small slice of Soundview Avenue on the east, the East River on the south, and the Bronx River on the west. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the area was rural, with farms predominating. Its name is derived from the Long Island Sound, because early maps described the southern border, the East River, as being part of the Sound, which lay to the east. The major park here, Soundview Park, was largely marshland when the city purchased it, and while