Kingsbridge Road is named after the King’s Bridge of 1693.
The toll bridge, built under a franchise of 1693, was owned by Frederick Philipse, lord of Philipsburg Manor, and likely erected by enslaved Africans. It spanned the now filled-in Spuyten Duyvil Creek near today’s 230th Street, and the Philipse family collected its tolls until the Revolution. Part of the Boston Post Road, it gave Kingsbridge its name, and is said to survive, buried, under the filled creek bed.