Runs through old Middletown, said to lie midway between Westchester and Pelham Bridge.
Middletown was a small settlement here. Forgotten New York explains its name by its position midway between Westchester and Pelham Bridge, which stood at the entrance to today’s Pelham Bay Park. One of its articles says ‘perhaps’ and counts from the village of Westchester; another from Westchester Bridge, destroyed by patriots in 1776 to delay a British advance.