Named after Pelham Parkway, the road linking Bronx Park with Pelham Bay Park.
Officially the Bronx and Pelham Parkway, the road was established in 1911, and the surrounding neighbourhood took its name from it. ‘Pelham’ goes back to Thomas Pell, an Englishman who bought land from the Siwanoy in 1654; it became known as Pelham Manor after Charles II's charter of 1666.