Glad you ask! This large polygon was added by an amateur (now inactive) mapper many years ago and is riddled with verification issues and syntactical inconsistencies with the rest of the surrounding area. I've done my best to work around this feature over the years, but it's become clear that there's no real utility left to this feature.

The area was originally drawn to denote the location of the neighborhood of Tottenville, but all other New York neighborhoods since follow a system of simply using a node to mark the general center of a neighborhood, as there often is a slight grey area as to where each neighborhood officially cuts off.
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