Ferry Point Park (Bronx)

Ferry Point Park is a 413.8 acres (167.5 ha) park in the Bronx, New York and the site of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge across the East River. The park site is a peninsula projecting into the East River roughly opposite the College Point and Malba neighborhoods of Queens. The park is adjacent to the Ferry Point mixed neighborhood (residential, commercial and retail) of Throggs Neck. The park is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. The Hutchinson River Parkway crosses the park to the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, splitting it into east and west sides.

The east side has a new golf course, Trump Ferry Point, community park and waterfront promenade. The east side borders are Saint Raymond's Cemetery; Balcom Avenue, Miles Avenue and Emerson Avenue; and the East River and the Bronx Whitestone Bridge.

The west side is heavily used for soccer, cricket, fishing and barbecues. Friends of Ferry Point Park holds cleanup events, plantings and helps care for the 3000 trees planted in the park as the Ferry Point 9/11 Memorial Grove and 9/11 Living Memorial Forest. These trees were donated by the Prince of Monaco.

Westchester Creek which borders the east side of this large park has a history which leads to the development of the Bronx Whitestone Bridge and therefore the Park itself. By the late 19th century Throggs Neck had developed into a fashionable public summer resort, which also contained large German beer gardens, to which the residents of Yorkville, Manhattan arrived by steamboat service up the East River. The 19th-century steamboat landing at Ferris Dock on Westchester Creek stood at present-day Brush Avenue north of Wenner Place; the road to it bore the name of the steamboat Osseo. The Ferris family were 18th-century residents, whose Ferris Point (Ferry Point) at the southeast corner of Throggs Neck neighborhood now supports the Hutchinson River Parkway (formerly Ferris Avenue) overhead ramp to the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge and Ferry Point Park. The first house to be built in the Bronx 1687 was reportedly the Charlton Ferris House along Ferris Avenue between Wenner Place, Brush Avenue and Lafayette Avenue. Situated on the estate of Albert L. Lovenstein. This is according to the G.W. Bromley Maps of 1900 and 1927.There is presently a Ferris Family house located on the nearby campus of Monsignor Scanlon High School (used as a residence by the Convent for many years and then as an alumni house it is empty now).

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