Kingsbridge

Kingsbridge is a working class residential neighborhood geographically located in the northwest Bronx in New York City. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 8. Its boundaries are Van Cortlandt Park to the north, Goulden Avenue to the east, West 225th Street to the south, and Irwin Avenue to the west. Broadway is the primary thoroughfare through Kingsbridge. Kingsbridge Heights, Bronx, a separate but similarly named neighborhood, lies across the Major Deegan Expressway, east of Kingsbridge proper. The neighborhood is named for The King's Bridge, erected in 1693 by Frederick Philipse, a local Lord loyal to the British Monarch. The bridge spanned the now-filled-in Spuyten Duyvil Creek, roughly south-parallel with today's 230th...