Hutchinson River and Bronx Car Rental

The Hutchinson River is a small stream in the Bronx, about 2 miles long, that empties out near City Island. This is a great place to visit with your Bronx car rental and enjoy a relaxing time.

All in the name

Hutchinson River is named after a pioneer settler in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands and the unauthorized minister of a dissident church discussion group. Hutchinson is a key figure in the study of the development of religious freedom in England's American colonies and the history of women in ministry. The majority of colonial European settlers who came to America for religious reasons came for the freedom to practice their own interpretation of Christianity and, in some cases, to impose it on others. In their early years, most colonies enforced a uniformity at least as strict as had occurred in the country they had left. Anne decided to leave Portsmouth, along with some of her family and some followers. The group went to Pelham Bay, then part of New Netherland, the Dutch possession which now is the Bronx in New York City. During this time the local Indians were fighting with the Dutch, and in 1643, she and all of her family who followed her, except her youngest daughter, were killed there by a group of Indians who came calling in a friendly manner, and then suddenly turned on their unsuspecting victims.

Hutchinson River Parkway

The Hutchinson River Parkway shared rustic characteristics of such as stone-arch bridges, wooden light posts and gently sloped curves that characterized the New York parkways of the 1920's and 1930's. Construction of the Hutchinson River Parkway began in 1924. In December 1927, workers completed a short two-mile section of the parkway in Pelham. The section included a new multiple-arch stone bridge to carry the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (Metro-North New Haven line) over the Hutchinson River Parkway and the adjacent river. Prior to construction of the parkway, the railroad had been on a solid embankment. The bridge was constructed underneath the embankment. By October 1928, an 11-mile section of parkway was completed between US 1 in Pelham and Westchester Avenue in White Plains. Upon completion, the new parkway served mostly local traffic within Westchester County. The parkway complied with the design standards of the era, with four 9-foot-wide travel lanes and a 40 MPH design speed. It did not have median separation, shoulders or acceleration-deceleration lanes. The entire 11 miles of parkway, which included bridle paths along the right-of-way, as well as a riding academy where the public could rent horses, cost $12 million to build.

Goose Island

Goose Island in the Hutchinson River in the Baychester section of The Bronx, which supports a colony of nesting wading birds. It is located between the Amtrak railroad bridge and the Hutchinson River Parkway bridge, and is part of Pelham Bay Park. When you travel to Pelham Bay park with your Bronx car rental you will be visiting the largest public park in New York City. The section of the park within New York City's borders is more than three times the size of Manhattan's Central Park. It is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Thomas Pell Wildlife Sanctuary and the Hunter Island Marine Zoology and Geology Sanctuary consist of a total of 489 acres of marshes and forests within Pelham Bay Park. Take advantage of the bicycle paths with your Bronx car rentals that go to all parts of the park and west to Bronx Park, east to City Island, and north to Mount Vernon.

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