Throggs Neck (also known as
Throgs Neck) is a narrow
spit of land in the southeastern portion of the
borough of
the Bronx in
New York City. It demarcates the passage between the
East River (an
estuary), and
Long Island Sound. "Throggs Neck" is also the name of the neighborhood of the peninsula, bounded on the north by East Tremont Avenue and Baisley Avenue, on the west by
Westchester Creek, and on the other sides by the River and the Sound. The neighborhood is part of
Bronx Community Board 10. Throggs Neck was largely exempt from the severe
urban decay that affected much of the Bronx in the 1970s.