The Throg's Neck Bridge opened on January 11, 1961, obviously changing the neighborhood and separating neighbors who used to live just across the street from eachother. Some of the divided neighborhoods turned into Edgewater Park, Silver Beach, and Locust Point. Bronx Beach and Pool was a club that once stood here, and it's former address was 177th Street and Longstreet Avenue. Another memory of living in the Bronx was telling people where you lived. If you weren't in one of the main sections of the Bronx with a name such as Throg's Neck, Country Club, Pelham Bay or Castle Hill for example, you could tell someone what precinct or parish you were from.
I lived in this area from the time I was born in 1965, until 1987 when I moved to Rockland County. My first home was in Edgewater Park, and my second home was on Reynolds Avenue, close enough to take coolers to the side of the highways to sell cold drinks to cars struggling with traffic coming off of or going over the bridge. We also used to wait on the side of the highway for our cousins on Long Island to pick us up in the Coach Buses for the planned trips they arranged to Hunter Mountain. It was definitely a different time with cherished memories.
There is nothing special about this cache, other than the memories I have of living here. The lovely condos have been built after I moved away.