Edgewater Park (Bronx)
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Edgewater Park is a small 60-acre (24 ha) waterside co-op community of 675 single-family homes in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, north of the Cross Bronx Expressway (I-95) near the Throgs Neck Bridge. Its beaches overlook Long Island Sound. Its sister communities are Silver Beach, south of the Cross Bronx Expressway, as well as Harding Park.[1]
Edgewater Park once housed a mansion built by George T. Adee in 1856. Eventually, in 1923, he leased the land to Richard W. Shaw Sr. an Irish immigrant who was a member of St. Ann's Episcopal Church in Morrisania and invited church youth to camp on the grounds which became known as Edgewater Camp. Campsites eventually developed into bungalows and by around 1918 a full-fledged bungalow had developed along the coast areas while other sections remained farmland and grazing land. Ruts from early auto traffic became roads. After World War I the community was divided into sections A, B, C, after the names of Army camps; D and E Sections were added later. In 1954 Shaw died. By this time, Edgewater Camp had become a community of full-time residents and became known as "Park of Edgewater" or "Edgewater Park."[2] The community became a co-op in 1988.[1]
