The Throggs Neck Merchants Association, which is lead by elected volunteer merchants and is supported by community and merchant volunteers, provides educational and community networking opportunities to local businesses and residents of the Throggs Neck community. The association meets on a monthly basis on Wednesday evenings at various merchant venues throughout the Throggs Neck area, and all merchants are welcome to attend at any time.

Our function is to support and assist the merchants, and to most effectively utilize the dues paid to enhance our district and community. In an effort to beautify and improve the Throggs Neck area, we organize events to unite the local residents with local business owners. We do this with the hope of job opportunities for local residents, support of local community projects, and the community support of local merchants, many of whom are local residents themselves.

Member merchants in the Throggs Neck Merchants Association understand that membership in the association does not promise or even infer any type of reward, increase in sales, or otherwise profit from being a member other than the education gained from attending meetings and communicating with other members.

Some examples of our recent efforts within the last year are as follows:

• The donation of U.S. Savings Bonds to 60 students in area schools. (5 children x 12 schools)
• Member merchants volunteering to educate local school children on different aspects of their respective businesses.
• Member merchants elected and performed the role of "principle for a day". (elected by pencil.org)
• Volunteering and participating in the local halloween parade held for local children. view photos
• Organizing and participating in two 1.5 mile long street fairs. view photos
  • Individual merchants participated in various ways. Some merchants gave samples of products, whiles others donated time and materials for fun stuff for the community.
• Participated and Donated gifts to local cildren in a Christmas Tree Ligthing ceremony. view photos
• Organized the collection of donations for holiday lights and decorations. view contributors
• Provided an "Old Time" trolley, free of charge, to the community during the street fairs and the December Holiday Season.

In light of certain recent events, our future goals will expand to include Disaster Recovery Planning as well as Education for merchants to create individual contingency plans for their businesses.

John Cerini - President (718) 829-3200

Joseph Monaco - VP (718) 409-6208

Tommy Melendez - Secretary (718) 892-1859

Bill Tsibidis - Treasurer (718) 597-3450

Throggs Neck Merchants Association mailing address: P.O. Box 508, Bronx, New York 10465
Throggs Neck Merchants Association e-mail address: info@throggsneck.org

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