Who put the Throggs in Throggs Neck?
Answer: Robert Moses, of course!
The neighborhood was named after an English colonialist named John Throckmorton. When Robert Moses was building bridges and commissioning street signs, he wanted to save money so he renamed the nabe Throggs -- and thus it's been called this ever since.
That's just one of the fascinating tidbits of NYC lore that I discovered from this website called Cityeneighorhoods.nyc.
This website gives you the history of every single NYC neighborhood with lots of interesting historical trivia like this. Check it out!
Btw one of John Throckmorton's descendants was, believe it or not, Marilyn Monroe!
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