Rodman's Neck
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Rodmans Neck, Bronx, NY 10464, USA Print route »
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Rodman's Neck refers to a peninsula of land in the Bronx, New York that juts out into Long Island Sound.The southern third of the "neck" is used as a firing range by the New York City Police Department; the remaining wooded section is part of Pelham Bay Park. The north side is joined to what used to be Hunters Island and Twin Island to form Orchard Beach and a parking lot. Two small land berms between Rodman's Neck and City Island are City Island's only connecting point road to the mainland.
Rodman's Neck has three meadows. One is a natural salt water meadow, and the other two are manmade freshwater meadows, one of which was created by Robert Moses's projects. The City Island Traffic Circle and several small ballfields also exist, while every original building has been razed. A landfill area for City Island Road crosses Turtle Cove Saltwater Marsh with a culvert made of concrete pipes connecting it to salt water Eastchester Bay. A second land berm built for horsecars, that was long forgotten, had its always-clogged three foot diameter culvert removed, and a trench with a stainless steel bridge was installed.
