When I first moved to City Island, A Slice of NYC Paradise I found a small and quiet seaside village but I had no idea there would be so many knuckleheads living here who would eventually refuse to protect others and themselves by wearing masks. An old-timer who was born and died on the same street warned me that many of them had moved into our island. Captain Ed explained that according to local tradition, anyone actually born on the island is known as a "clamdigger". A City Island resident not born on the island is known as a "mussel-sucker."
City Island is a neighborhood in the northeasternmost point in New York City, approximately 1.5 miles long by 0.5 miles wide. It is at the extreme western end of Long Island Sound, south of Pelham Bay and east of Eastchester Bay, NY.
City Island used to be not only a pretty place but a safe enclave to visit, until it received the dubious distinction of high percentage points hike in COVID cases, according to NYC figures. The place is like a New England fishing village. A perfect place to visit but perhaps not after a spreader event was held at one of the Yacht Clubs. The health department in NYC has now released real-time data on new coronavirus cases by ZIP code and borough for the first time since the pandemic.
An interactive map and a table show the percent of people who tested positive by ZIP code for the most recent seven days of available data and the rate of people tested during the last week.
The detailed data comes as the city faces a surge of new cases of the virus in every borough, with an 89 percent increase in cases citywide compared to two weeks prior.
If you see a knucklehead being naughty and not very nice by not wearing a mask, stay ways from them for our own good.
