There are more than eight million people living in New York City. However only 4444 live in my City Island island paradise neighborhood.
- City Island is a small island community in northeastern The Bronx, just over a half-mile long.
- Location: It's located at the western end of Long Island Sound, east of Eastchester Bay and south of Pelham Bay Park.
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Connection to mainland: A three-lane bridge is the only solid connection to the mainland.
.The 253-acre island lies at the western end of Long Island Sound, east of Eastchester Bay and south of Pelham Bay Park. A three-lane bridge (with a bike lane and a pedestrian walkway) is the only solid connection to the mainland. With about 4,500 residents — plus many weekend visitors, especially in the summer — it’s a maritime community that is now more focused on beaches than on building boats.
Because of a Special Purpose District designation, City Island looks “entirely different from the rest of the Bronx,” said Lauren Nye, a sixth-generation City Islander and the volunteer secretary of the City Island Nautical Museum. (She is also the director of operations for a nonprofit in the Wall Street area, to which she commutes two or three days a week.) “You can’t build higher than five stories.”