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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. ==History== Rodman's Neck is named after a local man, Samuel Rodman, while the southern tip, known as "Pell's Point", is where the British landed during the Revolutionary War's Battle of Pell's Point. It was originally named "Anne's Hoeck" after Anne Hutchinson, who was killed in a Native American massacre at nearby Split Rock. Rodman had owned a ferry that ran between Minneford Island (City Island) and Anne's Hoeck where the bridge is now. Then L.R. Marshall built a Southern-style mansion at the southernmost tip of Rodman’s Neck called Pell's Point on his estate renamed “Hawkswood”. His mansion was converted and used as an inn until 1888, when Parks acquired the property for Pelham Bay Park. The open firing range's story began when the New York City Parks Department acquired the property for Pelham Bay Park. In 1903 the Parks Department opened Rodman’s Neck to the public with public bathhouses, showers, picnic tables, and cooking facilities. During World War I (1914–1918) the United States Navy used the site as a training facility. In the 1920s Rodman’s Neck was once again used for park purposes. Between 1930 and 1936 the southern tip of the peninsula was used by the New York City Police Academy for summer training and explosives detonation. It was an ideal site to make bombs safe. The fact that the area was mostly surrounded by Eastchester Bay was considered good, so that any fragments from exploding bombs would not strike people at the remote site. In 1941, during World War II the U.S. Department of War began to use the area as a Navy base and in 1950, the United States Army drained the site and built barracks for soldiers at Fort Slocum. When the Army finished using the land, the site was turned over to the New York City Police Academy, where the police reestablished the permanent training facility and firing range in 1960. Early signs at the entrance said, "NYPD Pistol Range". In 1976 one NYPD Officer was killed and another was badly injured in The Pit when a bomb went off accidentally.〔(SKYJACKINGS: Bombs for Croatia ). TIME (1976-09-20). Retrieved on 2013-08-16.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rodman's Neck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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