THROGS NECK

THE GENERAL BOUNDARIES OF THROGS NECK are Middletown Road and Watt Avenue on the north, Long Island Sound on the east, the East River on the south, and Westchester Creek and the Hutchinson River Parkway on the west. The precise boundaries of the neighborhoods within Throgs Neck have long been, and continue to be, a matter of dispute. Many residents are fiercely territorial about the subject. But it doesn’t matter that much in this ethnically homogeneous area. Furthermore, most of the homes in this largely middle-class community range from modest to nice, with few mansions or, as people like to