IT’S wrong to say that the Eastchester Bridge on Boston Road in the Bronx’s extreme northeast crosses over into Westchester County as the Hutchinson River does not form the city line–there is still a small piece of the neighborhood of Eastchester, still in the Bronx, once you get across the river. A small grouping of streets, with Huguenot, McOwen and Ropes Avenue, clusters along Boston Road east of the river close to the undefended border of the Bronx and Westchester Counties between the New England Thruway and Hutchinson River Parkway.
The area is known as Bronx Manor and is an anomaly in New York City. Although it is part and parcel of The Bronx and thus New York City, all of its residences have Pelham Manor postal addresses and are within the Westchester 914 area code. Additionally although they pay city taxes, the City of New York made an agreement with the Pelham School District in 1949, to serve the neighborhood’s students with public education within their schools. This is a situation that exits nowhere else within the five boroughs and likely never will.
I explored Good Place, a dead end off West Street, because it’s rather strange. Like West Street itself, most of it is in Pelham Manor, but it extends west far enough so that the extreme western end is in the Bronx, and you can tell by the streetlamps. The lamp on the west end is a typical NYC telephone pole finned mast. Good Place was named for real estate broker Thomas B. Good, who arranged the sale of an incinerator to Pelham Manor in 1935.
I did a survey of Bronx and Pelham Manors, as well as northeast Eastchester, in 2018.
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8/29/23
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Curious to read more about the Pelham/NYC relationship you mentioned here with the schools and post office. Can you share where you learned this, would love to dive deeper. Thanks!
The DoITT NYCity Map shows Good Place entirely outside the borders of NYC.
The extreme west end touches the line hence the presence of a DOT telephone pole lamp.
Westchester county also shows this as entirely within Pelham Manor limits, not at all in NYC.
https://giswww.westchestergov.com/gismap/index.html?query=Municipal%20Boundaries,WCMUN.NAME=%27Pelham%20Manor%27 – The lamp post in question is at the intersection just after the road Goode Place thins out – on the opposite side of the NYC boundary no less.
I think this is definitive proof that Goode Place is NOT in NYC. This lamppost is just an anomaly – not a sign that this road is in NYC.
John McNamara has it in History in Asphalt, good enough for me.
Kevin, can you put your sources for the Pelham School District agreement?