City Island, Bronx

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Prior to European colonization, the island now known as City Island was inhabited by Native Americans, possibly the Wiechquaeskeck band of the Lenape people who left shell middens indicating that they had gathered, cooked, and consumed oysters and clams on the island.{{Cite web |title=Historic Pelham: Record of John Pell's Sale of City Island in 1685 Reveals the Identities of Two More Early Residents of the Manor of Pelham |url=http://historicpelham.blogspot.com/2018/09/record-of-john-pells-sale-of-city.html |access-date=2023-07-30 |language=en |archive-date=July 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730182750/http://historicpelham.blogspot.com/2018/09/record-of-john-pells-sale-of-city.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite journal |last=Skinner |first=Alanson |date=1923-01-03 |title=AMERICA:The Archeological History of New York.(Bulletins 235, 236 of the New York State Museum, Albany, 1920.) Arthur C. Parker |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=94–97 |doi=10.1525/aa.1923.25.1.02a00070 |issn=0002-7294|doi-access=free }} The island was part of a very large property, about 50,000 acres, to which the English physician Thomas Pell established ownership in a treaty signed by five Lenape sachems in 1654.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cityisland.com/history.html|title=History of City Island|website=www.cityisland.com|access-date=July 13, 2012|archive-date=July 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719102650/http://www.cityisland.com/history.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite book |last=Bell |first=Blake |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kFesS8SPgQcC |title=Thomas Pell and the Legend of the Pell Treaty Oak |date=2004 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=978-0-595-31334-1 |language=en |access-date=October 30, 2023 |archive-date=November 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107191921/https://books.google.com/books?id=kFesS8SPgQcC |url-status=live }}File:Pelham Cemetery.jpgThe island—known by different names including Minnewits, Minneford, Minefer's, Great Mulberry Island—was purchased in 1761 by Benjamin Palmer of New York, who planned to make it a major seaport in western Long Island Sound.{{Cite journal |date=December 19, 1763 |title=The New-York Gazette |journal=The New-York Gazette |pages=1}} Palmer changed the name to New City Island, later dropping the “New.”{{Cite web |title=City Island History {{!}} Bronx {{!}} City Island Nautical Museum |url=https://www.cityislandmuseum.org/copy-of-city-island-childhood-2 |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=City Island Museum |language=en |archive-date=July 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730182752/https://www.cityislandmuseum.org/copy-of-city-island-childhood-2 |url-status=live }}

Up to this point the island had been inhabited by only a few homes and farms. It had a population of about 1000 people, who tended farms and livestock. Palmer had the vision of developing the island into a port, which could rival that of New York. He knew that ships heading north and south passed City Island using Long Island Sound as a safe inshore waterway. He envisioned shipyards, and stores that could cater to the ships. He went as far as to have the island mapped out in different plots designated as shipyards, docks, business, farms, homes, schools, and houses of worship, along with streets, paths, and access routes. Benjamin Palmer appealed to the British Crown and received letters patent that covered the ownership of waterfront properties 400 feet out from the high tide mark under water and around the perimeter of the Island. This patent, known as the "Palmer Grant" is unique to City Island; it has been contested in courts since, but has always been upheld.{{Cite web|url=http://www.historicpelham.com/blogarchive/Blog20061127.htm|date=November 27, 2006|title=The 19th Century Ejectment of Henry Piepgras from Land Beneath the Waters Surrounding City Island|website=www.historicpelham.com|access-date=July 13, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111220001044/http://historicpelham.com/BlogArchive/Blog20061127.htm|archive-date=December 20, 2011|url-status=unfit}}

Palmer also is responsible for changing the name from Minefer's Island to City Island in anticipation of things to come. Palmer's vision never fully materialized, however, as the timing just before the American Revolution halted all progress, and the war depleted the capital of Palmer and his investors. It would be another sixty years before the island again started to be developed when oystermen, pilots of Hell Gate, a set of nearby narrows, and eventually shipbuilders arrived and introduced these industries.

In 1819, City Island was annexed to the town of Pelham, Westchester County.{{Cite web|url=https://forgotten-ny.com/2000/05/city-island/|title=CITY ISLAND - Forgotten New York|last=Walsh|first=Kevin|date=May 28, 2000|language=en-US|access-date=June 11, 2019|archive-date=June 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626214108/https://forgotten-ny.com/2000/05/city-island/|url-status=live}} It narrowly voted to become a part of New York City in 1895, in exchange for a new bridge to the mainland,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/24/nyregion/the-talk-of-city-island-the-city-uninvited-comes-to-city-island.html|title=The Talk of City Island: The City, Uninvited, Comes to City Island|last=McDonald|first=William P.|date=August 24, 1989|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 11, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=December 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171220100845/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/24/nyregion/the-talk-of-city-island-the-city-uninvited-comes-to-city-island.html|url-status=live}} and was consolidated as part of the Bronx in 1898. The island continued to host harbor defenses through the early 20th century. In the mid-20th century, City Island developed as a shipbuilding community, before becoming a daytrippers' destination. City Island has generally remained sparsely developed with a suburban feel. A 43-unit condo complex called On the Sound, built in 2015, was the first major residential project on the island since around 2000.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/realestate/new-waterfront-condos-in-the-bronx.html|title=A Bit More City on City Island|last=Gregor|first=Alison|date=August 15, 2014|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 11, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=April 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416033456/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/realestate/new-waterfront-condos-in-the-bronx.html|url-status=live}}

According to local tradition, anyone actually born on the island is known as a "clam digger".{{Cite web|url=https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/clam_digger_mussel_sucker_city_island_terms/|title=Barry Popik|website=www.barrypopik.com|access-date=January 15, 2019|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162449/https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/clam_digger_mussel_sucker_city_island_terms/|url-status=live}} A City Island resident not born on the island is known as a "mussel sucker".{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/nyregion/thecity/27muss.html|title=In a Seafaring Enclave, Mollusks on the Mind|last=Bleyer|first=Jennifer|date=May 27, 2007|website=The New York Times|access-date=March 17, 2019|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612224752/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/nyregion/thecity/27muss.html|url-status=live}}

For census purposes, the New York City government classifies City Island as part of a larger neighborhood tabulation area called Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island.{{Cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/ntas.pdf |title=New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010 |work=Population Division New York City Department of City Planning |date=February 2012 |access-date=June 16, 2016 |archive-date=November 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129141839/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/ntas.pdf |url-status=live }} As of the 2020 Census, the island had a population of 4,417.

Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island was 26,583, a decrease of 557 (2.1%) from the 27,140 counted in 2000. Covering an area of {{convert|917.45|acres}}, the neighborhood had a population density of {{convert|29.0|PD/acre|PD/sqmi PD/sqkm}}.{{Cite web |url=http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p5_nta.pdf |title=Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010 |work=Population Division - New York City Department of City Planning |date=February 2012 |access-date=June 16, 2016 |archive-date=June 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610175331/http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p5_nta.pdf |url-status=live }} The racial makeup of the Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island neighborhood was 62.0% (16,488) White, 2.9% (773) African American, 0.1% (36) Native American, 3.6% (969) Asian, 0.0% (5) Pacific Islander, 0.4% (110) from other races, and 0.9% (252) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 29.9% (7,950) of the population.{{Cite web |url=http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p3a_nta.pdf |title=Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010 |work=Population Division - New York City Department of City Planning |date=March 29, 2011 |access-date=June 14, 2016 |archive-date=June 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610170733/http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p3a_nta.pdf |url-status=live }}

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The entirety of Community District 10, which comprises City Island, Co-op City, Country Club, Pelham Bay, Schuylerville,

Throgs Neck and Westchester Square, had 121,868 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 81.1 years.{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/data/2018chp-bx10.pdf|title=Throgs Neck and Co-op City (Including City Island, Co-op City, Country Club, Pelham Bay, Schuylerville, Throgs Neck and Westchester Square)|date=2018|website=nyc.gov|publisher=NYC Health|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-date=August 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810174044/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/data/2018chp-bx10.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Rp|2, 20}} This is about the same as the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/tcny/community-health-assessment-plan.pdf|title=2016-2018 Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan: Take Care New York 2020|date=2016|website=nyc.gov|publisher=New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene|access-date=September 8, 2017|archive-date=October 9, 2022|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/tcny/community-health-assessment-plan.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Rp|53 (PDF p. 84)}}{{cite web | title=New Yorkers are living longer, happier and healthier lives | website=New York Post | last=Short | first=Aaron | date=June 4, 2017 | url=https://nypost.com/2017/06/04/new-yorkers-are-living-longer-happier-and-healthier-lives/ | access-date=March 1, 2019 | archive-date=March 2, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302024959/https://nypost.com/2017/06/04/new-yorkers-are-living-longer-happier-and-healthier-lives/ | url-status=live }} Most inhabitants are youth and middle-aged adults: 20% are between the ages of between 0–17, 26% between 25 and 44, and 27% between 45 and 64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 9% and 18% respectively.{{Rp|2}}

As of 2017, the median household income in Community District 10 was $59,522.{{cite web|url=https://censusreporter.org/profiles/79500US3603703-nyc-bronx-community-district-10-co-op-city-pelham-bay-schuylerville-puma-ny/|title=NYC-Bronx Community District 10--Co-op City, Pelham Bay & Schuylerville PUMA, NY|access-date=July 17, 2018|archive-date=November 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128022808/https://censusreporter.org/profiles/79500US3603703-nyc-bronx-community-district-10-co-op-city-pelham-bay-schuylerville-puma-ny/|url-status=dead}} In 2018, an estimated 14% residents of Community District 10 lived in poverty, compared to 25% in all of the Bronx and 20% in all of New York City. One in eleven residents (9%) were unemployed, compared to 13% in the Bronx and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 45% in Community District 10, compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 58% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, {{as of|2018|lc=y}}, Community District 10 is considered high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying.{{Rp|7}}

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Most businesses are clustered along the central City Island Avenue. There is one small supermarket, a gas station, a bank, a hardware store and a variety of other small shops. The island is most famous for its numerous seafood restaurants and antique stores, which line both sides of the avenue.

At the southernmost section of City Island is Belden Point,{{Cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qUfosR3PMQoC&q=%22belden+point%22+%22city+island%22&pg=PA26| title=History in Asphalt: The Origin of Bronx Street and Place Names| first=John| last=McNamara| publisher=Bronx Historical Society| page=26| year=1993| isbn=0-941980-16-2| access-date=October 25, 2020| archive-date=March 22, 2024| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240322134739/https://books.google.com/books?id=qUfosR3PMQoC&q=%22belden+point%22+%22city+island%22&pg=PA26| url-status=live}} named for William Belden, a developer who opened an amusement park and resort in the area in 1887.{{cite web |url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/X279/ |title=City Island Wetlands |work=New York City Parks & Recreation |access-date=February 1, 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090204060750/http://nycgovparks.org/parks/X279/| archive-date= February 4, 2009 | url-status= live}} In the early part of the 20th century, the area was a favored recreation location for business tycoons including Vincent Astor, J.P. Morgan and William Randolph Hearst. Today, Belden Point is home to a number of popular seafood restaurants.{{cite news | first = Carol | last = Pucci | title = City Island: a touch of Nantucket in New York City | newspaper = The Seattle Times | date = December 22, 2002 | url = https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20021222/cityisland22/city-island-a-touch-of-nantucket-in-new-york-city | access-date = February 1, 2009 | archive-date = September 15, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120915020308/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20021222&slug=cityisland22 | url-status = live }} A new public greenspace was dedicated in 2016 at its waterfront tip.{{cite news|last1=Rocchio|first1=Patrick|title=Belden Point greenspace dedicated on CI|work=Bronx Times-Reporter |date=Aug 5–11, 2016}}

In 1960 City Island became the last community in New York City to get dial telephone service. Until then eight operators in a private home on Schofield Street connected all calls. The dial exchange began as Area Code 212-TT5. Now Area Code 718–885.

City Island was created by glacial deposits at the end of the last ice age. There is a layer of bedrock and then a thick layer of red clay topped with sand, with topsoil above that. The southern end has deposits of rare blue clay. The area is strewn with glacial erratic boulders. Local bedrock is Manhattan schist with glacial striations.

The forms of animal life on the island are not much different from that of the surrounding region, and are typical of a suburban environment: raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, skunk, and occasional deer. Coyotes and turkeys have also been sighted.

The real diversity of wildlife on and around City Island is among birds, especially aquatic species. There are many varieties of duck; buffleheads, goldeneyes, mallards, and cormorants. Canada geese are common, as are mute swans, great blue herons, great white egrets, and several types of gull. A small protected wetlands area on west Ditmars Street is home to many of these species as well as the feral pigeon.

Bright green parrots (monk parakeets), originally imported from South America as pets, have adapted to the climate and breed in the wild in New York. They are a common sight on City Island and in nearby Pelham Bay Park. Rafters of wild turkeys also are often seen in the park. Deer are occasionally seen on the island, although more commonly in Pelham Bay Park. Another, nonnative species of the island is the brown or De Kay's snake, which has adapted to life among the island's growing community.

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The island is famous for its seafood restaurants; lobster is a popular specialty. Over 30 eating establishments compete for business, ranging from fast food (Johnny's Reef), to The Black Whale, famous for its desserts.{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Stuart|title=An Oasis for the Locals on Touristy City Island|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/nyregion/the-black-whale-an-oasis-for-locals-on-city-island.html?_r=0|work=The New York Times|date=May 31, 2012|access-date=October 30, 2015|archive-date=November 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117145239/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/nyregion/the-black-whale-an-oasis-for-locals-on-city-island.html?_r=0|url-status=live}} While a few of the restaurants close during the winter months, most are open year-round.{{cite news|title=If You're Thinking of Living in; City Island|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/29/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-city-island.html|work=The New York Times|date=November 29, 1987|access-date=October 30, 2015|last1=Waite|first1=Thomas L.|archive-date=March 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307131426/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/29/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-city-island.html|url-status=live}}

The City Island Nautical Museum displays maritime artifacts and antiques. It is located at 190 Fordham Street and is open only on Saturday and Sunday afternoons (other times by appointment). Admission is eight dollars, and there is a small gift shop. The museum is located in the PS17 building, a historic school building built in 1897 before the City Island Bridge.{{cite web|title=City Island Nautical Museum - History|url=http://www.cityislandmuseum.org/VSS-PS17/PS17_School%20Photos.html|access-date=October 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151219005419/http://cityislandmuseum.org/VSS-PS17/PS17_School%20Photos.html|archive-date=December 19, 2015|url-status=dead}}

The island has landmarks, such as the Samuel Pell Mansion on City Island Avenue, near St. Mary Star of the Sea Church. It is where Arsenic and Old Lace was filmed for TV in 1969. There are a number of old Victorian mansions located throughout City Island, mostly on the Sound side, complete with tall pointy spires and gables with gazebos, such as Delmours Point on Tier Street.{{cite web|title=The Royal Tenenbaums' Summer Home Was In The Bronx|url=http://gothamist.com/2012/01/12/royal_tennenbaums_summer_home_was_i.php|access-date=October 30, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923005327/http://gothamist.com/2012/01/12/royal_tennenbaums_summer_home_was_i.php|archive-date=September 23, 2015}}

The City Island Theater Group, a local community theater established in 1999,{{cite web | title=City Island Theater Group | website=GuideStar Profile | url=https://www.guidestar.org/profile/13-4048438 | access-date=September 30, 2023 | archive-date=November 7, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107191919/https://www.guidestar.org/profile/13-4048438 | url-status=live }} produces shows year round.{{cite web|title=Who We Are - City Island Theater Group|url=http://www.cityislandtheatergroup.com/whoweare.htm|access-date=October 30, 2015|archive-date=July 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150720120535/http://www.cityislandtheatergroup.com/whoweare.htm|url-status=dead}}

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The island has three yacht clubs situated on the Eastchester Bay side of the island. They are, from north to south, the Harlem Yacht Club, the City Island Yacht Club, and the Morris Yacht and Beach Club. The Touring Kayak Club is on the west side of the island. Barron's Boatyard, the North Minneford Yacht Club and the South Minneford Yacht Club are on the east side of the island. There are two active sail lofts (UK-Halsey and Doyle). The island also has several commercial marinas.{{cite web|title=Stuyvesant Yacht Club Official Website|url=http://www.stuyvesantyc.org/|access-date=October 30, 2015|archive-date=September 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921093338/http://www.stuyvesantyc.org/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Harlem Yacht Club Official Website|url=http://www.hyc.org/|access-date=October 30, 2015|archive-date=November 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116233914/http://hyc.org/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=City Island Yacht Club Official Website|url=http://www.cityislandyc.org/|access-date=October 30, 2015|archive-date=August 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150822165157/http://www.cityislandyc.org/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Morris Yacht and Beach Club Official Website|url=http://www.morrisybc.com/|access-date=October 30, 2015|archive-date=October 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019011009/http://www.morrisybc.com/|url-status=live}}

The island has what are called "special anchorages" where boats of all sizes are freely moored or anchored, and there are many docks with boat slips for mooring boats in a secure and restricted way. There are also many large piers around the island that can receive large ships.{{cite news|title=Stray Sailboats, and Worries Ashore|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/nyregion/thecity/21sail.html?pagewanted=print|work=The New York Times|date=October 21, 2007|access-date=October 30, 2015|last1=Bleyer|first1=Jennifer|archive-date=June 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605081603/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/nyregion/thecity/21sail.html?pagewanted=print|url-status=live}}

The island is home to the Columbia University Sailing Team, whose fleet of dinghies is docked at City Island Yacht Club. The team comes from Manhattan four times a week to practice off the western shore of City Island. Fordham University's Sailing Team sails out of Morris Yacht and Beach Club. Many of the boats which competed and won in the America's Cup in years past were built in the Nevins Boat Yard on City Island. The Eastchester Bay Yacht Racing Association is the major organizer for sailboat races in the area.{{cite web|title=City Island and the America's Cup|url=http://www.cityislandmuseum.org/AmericasCupHistory.html|access-date=October 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227143636/http://www.cityislandmuseum.org/AmericasCupHistory.html|archive-date=December 27, 2016|url-status=dead}}

A small fleet of head boats takes paying passengers on fishing trips to Long Island Sound. Smaller boats are also available for rent by the day. The sail and power boating industry has been declining in recent years, as boatyards are being sold and being converted into condominiums.{{cite news|title=A Bit More City on City Island|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/realestate/new-waterfront-condos-in-the-bronx.html|work=The New York Times|date=August 15, 2014|access-date=October 30, 2015|last1=Gregor|first1=Alison|archive-date=April 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416033456/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/realestate/new-waterfront-condos-in-the-bronx.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last1=Clarkson|first1=Leah|title=A Perfect Day on City Island, the Bronx|url=http://www.newyork.com/articles/neighborhoods/a-perfect-day-on-city-island-the-bronx-27916/|access-date=October 30, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150816054922/http://www.newyork.com/articles/neighborhoods/a-perfect-day-on-city-island-the-bronx-27916/|archive-date=August 16, 2015}} Abandoned boats sometimes wash up around City Island and Pelham Bay, in part due to the high cost of maintaining a boat.{{cite web | last=Custodio | first=Jonathan | title=Abandoned Ghost Boats Haunt City Island's Shores | website=THE CITY - NYC News | date=January 26, 2024 | url=https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/01/26/abandoned-boats-city-island-bronx/ | access-date=March 21, 2024 | archive-date=March 21, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321235233/https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/01/26/abandoned-boats-city-island-bronx/ | url-status=live }}

• City Island Civic Association
• American Legion - Leonard H. Hawkins Post 156
• Cub Scouts Troop 211
• Boy Scouts Troop 211
• City Island Nautical Museum
• Garden Club of City Island
• AARP 318
• U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 014-05-04 City Island
• U.S. Power Squadron City Island
• City Island Republicans
• American Legion Auxiliary Post 156
• City Island Rising
• City Island Little League
• Bronx Masonic District
• City Island Indivisible{{Cite web |last=Indivisible |first=Empire State |date=2018-03-21 |title=Over 60 New York Grassroots Groups Form Coalition, Endorse Challengers to Independent Democratic… |url=https://esindivisible.medium.com/for-immediate-release-march-1-2018-a32b0a1a239d |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=Medium |language=en |archive-date=July 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730183554/https://esindivisible.medium.com/for-immediate-release-march-1-2018-a32b0a1a239d |url-status=live }}
• City Island Oyster Reef, Inc{{Cite web |date=2021-12-07 |title=Community Change-Makers: The New Yorkers Combating Climate Crisis, Hunger |url=https://citylimits.org/2021/12/07/community-change-makers-the-new-yorkers-combating-climate-crisis-hunger/ |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=City Limits |language=en-US |archive-date=July 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730183554/https://citylimits.org/2021/12/07/community-change-makers-the-new-yorkers-combating-climate-crisis-hunger/ |url-status=live }}

The Island Current is a local newspaper printed monthly.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theislandcurrent.com/OrganizationNews.html|title=Organization News|website=www.theislandcurrent.com|access-date=July 13, 2012|archive-date=February 13, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213172350/http://www.theislandcurrent.com/OrganizationNews.html|url-status=dead}} The first issue was printed in October 1971, and the newspaper focuses on local issues, gatherings and businesses, as well as boating information.{{cite web |title=The Island Current (City Island, N.Y.) 1971-Current |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/sn2001061886/ |website=Library of Congress |access-date=10 August 2023 |archive-date=August 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810234919/https://www.loc.gov/item/sn2001061886/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Cohen |first1=Barney |title=The Landlubber's Guide to City Island |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PeQCAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22The+Island+Current%22+newspaper&pg=PA50 |website=New York |date=August 1977 |access-date=10 August 2023 |archive-date=November 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107191919/https://books.google.com/books?id=PeQCAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22The+Island+Current%22+newspaper&pg=PA50 |url-status=live }} The newspaper maintains a close relationship with the City Island Chamber of Commerce.{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Catherine A. |title=City Island and Orchard Beach |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSxaK_AxDuYC&dq=%22The+Island+Current%22+newspaper&pg=PT2 |via=Google books |date=October 30, 2023 |publisher=Arcadia |isbn=9780738535463 |access-date=10 August 2023 |archive-date=November 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107191918/https://books.google.com/books?id=LSxaK_AxDuYC&dq=%22The+Island+Current%22+newspaper&pg=PT2 |url-status=live }}

City Island is patrolled by the 45th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 2877 Barkley Avenue in Throggs Neck.{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/45th-precinct.page|title=NYPD – 45th Precinct|website=www.nyc.gov|publisher=New York City Police Department|access-date=October 3, 2016|archive-date=June 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606174027/http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/45th-precinct.page|url-status=live}} The 45th Precinct ranked 28th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/crime-safety-report/bronx/throgs-neck/|title=Throgs Neck: City Island, Pelham Bay, Co-op City – DNAinfo.com Crime and Safety Report|website=www.dnainfo.com|access-date=October 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415064635/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/crime-safety-report/bronx/throgs-neck|archive-date=April 15, 2017|url-status=dead}} {{As of|2018}}, with a non-fatal assault rate of 53 per 100,000 people, Community District 10's rate of violent crimes per capita was less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 243 per 100,000 people was lower than that of the city as a whole.{{Rp|8}}

The 45th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 67% between 1990 and 2022. The precinct reported five murders, 13 rapes, 235 robberies, 265 felony assaults, 108 burglaries, 609 grand larcenies, and 323 grand larcenies auto in 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-045pct.pdf|title=45th Precinct CompStat Report|website=www.nyc.gov|publisher=New York City Police Department|access-date=May 9, 2021|archive-date=April 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210407075739/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-045pct.pdf|url-status=live}}

City Island is served by the New York City Fire Department (FDNY)'s Engine Co. 70/Ladder Co. 53, located at 169 Schofield Street.{{cite web | title=Engine Company 70/Ladder Company 53 | website=FDNYtrucks.com | url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/bronx/e70.htm | access-date=March 14, 2019 | archive-date=October 19, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019004558/http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/bronx/e70.htm | url-status=live }}{{Cite FDNY locations}}

{{As of|2018}}, preterm births are more common in Community District 10, which comprises City Island, Co-op City, Country Club, Pelham Bay, Schuylerville, Throgs Neck and Westchester Square, compared to other places citywide, although births to teenage mothers are less common. In Community District 10, there were 110 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 10.3 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).{{Rp|11}} Community District 10 has a low population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 7%, lower than the citywide rate of 14%, though this was based on a small sample size.{{Rp|14}}

The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Community District 10 is {{convert|0.0075|mg/m3|oz/ft3}}, the same as the city average.{{Rp|9}} Fourteen percent of Community District 10 residents are smokers, which is the same as the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.{{Rp|13}} In Community District 10, 24% of residents are obese, 13% are diabetic, and 37% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.{{Rp|16}} In addition, 25% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.{{Rp|12}}

Eighty-seven percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is the same as the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 77% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", about the same as the city's average of 78%.{{Rp|13}} For every supermarket in Community District 10, there are seven bodegas.{{Rp|10}}

The nearest large hospitals are Calvary Hospital, Montefiore Medical Center's Jack D. Weiler Hospital, and Jacobi Medical Center in Morris Park. The Albert Einstein College of Medicine campus is also located in Morris Park.{{cite web | title=Best 30 Hospitals in Bronx, NY with Reviews | website=Yellow Pages | url=https://www.yellowpages.com/bronx-ny/hospitals | access-date=March 14, 2019 | archive-date=July 3, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703111419/https://www.yellowpages.com/bronx-ny/hospitals | url-status=live }}

City Island is located within ZIP Code 10464.{{cite web | title=City Island, New York City-Bronx, New York Zip Code Boundary Map (NY) | website=United States Zip Code Boundary Map (USA) | url=https://www.zipmap.net/New_York/Bronx_County/Z_City_Island.htm | access-date=March 17, 2019 | archive-date=June 21, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621053303/http://www.zipmap.net/New_York/Bronx_County/Z_City_Island.htm | url-status=dead }} The United States Postal Service operates the City Island Station post office at 199 City Island Avenue.{{cite web | title=Location Details: City Island | website=USPS.com | url=https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=po&address=10461&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1358095&locationName=CITY+ISLAND&address2=&address1=199+CITY+ISLAND+AV | access-date=March 7, 2019 | archive-date=March 22, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240322134740/https://tools.usps.com/find-location.htm | url-status=live }}

Community District 10, which comprises City Island, Co-op City, Country Club, Pelham Bay, Schuylerville, Throgs Neck and Westchester Square, generally has a lower rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city {{as of|2018|lc=y}}. While 34% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, 16% have less than a high school education and 50% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 26% of Bronx residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.{{Rp|6}} The percentage of Community District 10 students excelling in math rose from 29% in 2000 to 47% in 2011, and reading achievement increased from 33% to 35% during the same time period.{{Cite web|url=http://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/BX_10_11.pdf|title=Throgs Neck / Co-op City – BX 10|date=2011|publisher=Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy|access-date=October 5, 2016|archive-date=March 22, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240322134815/https://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/BX_10_11.pdf|url-status=live}}

Community District 10's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is slightly higher than the rest of New York City. In Community District 10, 21% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, a little more than the citywide average of 20%.{{Rp|24 (PDF p. 55)}}{{Rp|6}} Additionally, 75% of high school students in Community District 10 graduate on time, the same as the citywide average of 75%.{{Rp|6}}

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The public school on City Island is operated by the New York City Department of Education. [https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/X175 PS 175], located on City Island Avenue, serves grades K-8 for the island.

The School of St. Mary Star of the Sea was a Roman Catholic grade school, serving grades PreK-8 on City Island, until it closed in the end of the 2012–2013 school year.{{cite news|last1=Otterman|first1=Sharon|title=New York Archdiocese to Close 24 Schools|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/nyregion/new-york-archdiocese-to-close-24-schools.html|work=The New York Times|date=January 23, 2013|access-date=November 23, 2015|archive-date=February 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130206132224/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/nyregion/new-york-archdiocese-to-close-24-schools.html|url-status=live}} The church operated Holy Rosary Early Childhood Academy at St. Mary Star Of The Sea until its closure in 2010.{{Cite web |date=2023-07-17 |title=St. Mary, Star Of The Sea School (Closed 2010) - Bronx, NY |url=https://www.privateschoolreview.com/st-mary-star-of-the-sea-school-profile/10464 |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=Private School Review |language=en |archive-date=July 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730192104/https://www.privateschoolreview.com/st-mary-star-of-the-sea-school-profile/10464 |url-status=live }}

The former Public School 17 houses the City Island Historical Society and Nautical Museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.{{NRISref|version=2009a}}

The New York Public Library (NYPL)'s City Island branch is located at 320 City Island Avenue. The branch has been operating since 1903, but moved to its current building in 1970; a renovation in 1997 doubled the size of the branch. The City Island branch contains a "ship collection" of over a thousand ship-related media, as well as a collection of materials about City Island's history.{{cite web | title=About the City Island Library | website=The New York Public Library | url=https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/city-island | access-date=March 14, 2019 | archive-date=May 7, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507200527/https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/city-island | url-status=live }}

The religious communities on the island are relatively diverse for its size. There are four houses of worship: Saint Mary Star of the Sea Holy Roman Catholic Church, Trinity United Methodist Church, Grace Episcopal Church, and Temple Beth El (founded in 1934), a non-denominational liberal synagogue.{{Cite web |title=About Our Shul – Temple Beth-El of City Island |url=https://yourshulbythesea.org/our-shul/about-our-shul/ |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=yourshulbythesea.org |quote=The Congregation Temple Beth-El was founded in 1934 by 17 men of the Jewish faith. They met at the home of Mr. Jacob Katz on Orchard Street (now Hawkins Street). |archive-date=March 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323170942/https://yourshulbythesea.org/our-shul/about-our-shul/ |url-status=live }}{{Google maps | url = https://www.google.com/maps/search/city+island+religious/@40.8484835,-73.7902548,14z | title = City Island Religious Institutions | access-date = March 16, 2020}}

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Starting in 1760, a small rope ferry ran between the mainland and City Island. In 1873 a bridge was built by a syndicate of City Island businessmen, including G.W. Horton, Ben Hedgeman, and David Carll. It was replaced by {{convert|950|ft|adj=on}} steel, three-lane City Island Bridge in 1901.{{Cite web |last=Bindley |first=Katherine |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/nyregion/thecity/16brid.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905225244/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/nyregion/thecity/16brid.html?_r=1 |archive-date=5 September 2012 |title=In the 'Nantucket of New York,' a Bridge to Agitation |work=The New York Times |date=November 14, 2008 |access-date=March 23, 2023 |quote=Ms. Dolensek wanted to protest the city’s plans for an entirely different bridge, one a few miles away that was built in 1901 to connect City Island and the Bronx mainland. While the rains foiled her plans, she and other residents will continue to oppose the city’s design for the span that will replace the decaying 950-foot-long City Island Bridge.}} In 2014, the New York City Department of Transportation had proposed replacing it with a cable-stayed bridge hanging from a 160-foot tower but the design faced intense community opposition and the city submitted a redesign which was approved.{{cite news|last=Rocchio|first=Patrick|title=Borough President Diaz votes no on City Island Bridge|url=http://www.bxtimes.com/stories/2014/17/17-span-2014-04-24-bx_2014_17.html|access-date=April 30, 2014|newspaper=Bronx Times-Reporter|date=April 25, 2014|archive-date=May 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502004442/http://www.bxtimes.com/stories/2014/17/17-span-2014-04-24-bx_2014_17.html|url-status=live}} A temporary bridge was used from December 2015 until October 2017 which allowed for the demolition of the old bridge and the construction of its replacement.{{cite news|last1=Rocchio|first1=Patrick|title=City Island temp bridge to open|work=Bronx Times-Reporter|date=November 18, 2015}} The New City Island Causeway Bridge opened to traffic on October 29, 2017.{{Cite news|url=http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/695-17/mayor-de-blasio-opening-new-city-island-bridge-the-bronx|title=Mayor de Blasio Announces Opening of New City Island Bridge in the Bronx|date=October 29, 2017|work=The official website of the City of New York|access-date=May 31, 2018|archive-date=January 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115182639/https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/695-17/mayor-de-blasio-opening-new-city-island-bridge-the-bronx|url-status=live}}

There is another small, private bridge on the northeastern end of City Island connecting it to High Island,{{cite web | last=Reale | first=Nicholas | title=Abandoned NYC: Chimney Sweeps Island & High Island of The Devil's Stepping Stones in the Bronx | website=Untapped New York | date=June 18, 2014 | url=https://untappedcities.com/2014/06/18/abandoned-nyc-chimney-sweeps-island-high-island-of-the-devils-stepping-stones-in-the-bronx/ | access-date=April 11, 2020 | archive-date=January 16, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200116124355/https://untappedcities.com/2014/06/18/abandoned-nyc-chimney-sweeps-island-high-island-of-the-devils-stepping-stones-in-the-bronx/ | url-status=live }}{{cite web | title=High Island Bridge | website=Bridgehunter.com | date=April 8, 2018 | url=http://bridgehunter.com/ny/bronx/high-island | access-date=April 11, 2020 | archive-date=April 11, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411011807/http://bridgehunter.com/ny/bronx/high-island | url-status=live }} site of the radio transmitter for WFAN (660 AM) and WCBS (880 AM).{{cite web|url=http://gallery.bostonradio.org/2003-01/nyc/100-00882-med.html|title=WFAN/WCBS tower, High Island, Bronx|access-date=April 12, 2016|archive-date=April 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428163241/http://gallery.bostonradio.org/2003-01/nyc/100-00882-med.html|url-status=live}} A security gate prevents public access.

The Pelham Park & City Island Railway connected City Island to Pelham Bay Park from 1887 to 1919. Originally composed of two separate railroads, the {{RailGauge|3ft6in|lk=on}} narrow-gauge horsecar route was operated by the Pelham Park Railroad Company, which ran service between the Bartow station of the Harlem River & Port Chester Railroad and Brown's Hotel on City Island. The {{convert|3.2|mi|km|adj=on}} route was complete by 1892.{{cite book |title=American Street Railway Investments |author=((Editors of the Electric Railway Journal )) |publisher=McGraw Publishing Company |location=New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j47IQgaWJM4C |year=1907 |page=217 |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=March 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240322134820/https://books.google.com/books?id=j47IQgaWJM4C |url-status=live }} The Interborough Rapid Transit Company, which operated part of the modern-day New York City Subway, absorbed the two companies in 1902 and started designing its own monorail in 1908. The monorail's first journey in July 1910 ended with the monorail toppling on its side.{{cite web | title=Monorail Car Fails in Its First Test; But Electricians and Officials of Pelham Park & City Island Line Say That Was Expected | website=The New York Times | date=July 8, 1910 | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/07/08/102043041.pdf | access-date=October 6, 2017}}{{cite news | last=Metcalfe | first=John | title=On This Day in 1910, New York's Monorail Suffered a Grievous Wreck | newspaper=Bloomberg.com | date=July 16, 2014 | url=http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/07/on-this-day-in-1910-new-yorks-monorail-suffered-a-grievous-wreck/374511/ | access-date=October 6, 2017 | archive-date=October 7, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007021132/https://www.citylab.com/design/2014/07/on-this-day-in-1910-new-yorks-monorail-suffered-a-grievous-wreck/374511/ | url-status=live }}{{cite book |title=More Unusual Railways |author=John R. Day |publisher=Frederick Muller Ltd. |location=London |year=1960 |url=https://archive.org/stream/tramwaysactvict00britgoog|pages=100–103}} Although service resumed in November 1910, the monorail went into receivership in December 1911,{{cite web | title=Receiver for Monorail Line | website=The New York Times | date=December 13, 1911 | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/12/13/104885730.pdf | access-date=October 6, 2017}} and the monorail ceased operation on April 3, 1914.{{cite book | last=Twomey | first=Bill | title=The Bronx, in Bits and Pieces | publisher=Rooftop Publishing | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-60008-062-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WeVTP3GyFH0C&pg=PA103 | access-date=October 6, 2017 | page=39 | archive-date=December 3, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203222501/https://books.google.com/books?id=WeVTP3GyFH0C&pg=PA103#v=onepage&q&f=false | url-status=live }}{{cite book | title=Minutes of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the City of New York | publisher=M. B. Brown Printing & Binding Company | year=1914 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7486AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA2307 | access-date=October 6, 2017 | page=2307}}{{cite web | last=Upham | first=Ben | title=CITY LORE; The Timetable of Age Overtakes Stations | website=The New York Times | date=November 12, 2000 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/12/nyregion/city-lore-the-timetable-of-age-overtakes-stations.html | access-date=October 17, 2017 | archive-date=October 17, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017202939/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/12/nyregion/city-lore-the-timetable-of-age-overtakes-stations.html | url-status=live }} In July 1914, the IRT sold the company to the Third Avenue Railway,{{cite news |title=City Island Road Sold. |work=The New York Times |date=July 10, 1914 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/07/10/101920722.pdf}} which ceased operation of the City Island Railroad on August 9, 1919.{{cite book |author=State of New York Public Service Commission for the First District |title=Fourteenth Annual Report |publisher=State of New York |year=1920 |url=https://archive.org/details/annualreportfor00distgoog |pages=[https://archive.org/details/annualreportfor00distgoog/page/n397 398]}}

{{As of|2024}}, the only public transportation to City Island consists of two bus routes operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The island is served by MTA Regional Bus Operations's Bx29 local route, which operates to the New York City Subway's Pelham Bay Park station, and two rush-hour extended round-trips of the BxM8 express route, which runs to Manhattan.{{Cite NYC bus map|Bx}}

The Bronx Tourism Council ran the City Island Seaside Trolley, which later became a ferry service. This ferry service was retired in 2020.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ilovethebronx.com/index.php/happenings/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5|title=Tour de Bronx|website=www.ilovethebronx.com|access-date=January 15, 2019|archive-date=May 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526043113/http://www.ilovethebronx.com/index.php/happenings/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |title=City Island Seaside Trolley |url=https://cityislandchamber.org/city-island-seaside-trolley/ |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=City Island Chamber of Commerce |language=en-US |archive-date=September 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230905050212/https://cityislandchamber.org/city-island-seaside-trolley/ |url-status=live }} In the 2020s, residents of City Island have advocated for a NYC Ferry stop in the neighborhood, although NYC Ferry had no plans to expand there.{{cite web |date=April 25, 2022 |title=Community leaders aim to bring NYC Ferry to City Island |url=https://bronx.news12.com/community-leaders-aim-to-bring-nyc-ferry-to-city-island |access-date=September 29, 2023 |website=News 12 - The Bronx |postscript=none |archive-date=December 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204185429/https://bronx.news12.com/community-leaders-aim-to-bring-nyc-ferry-to-city-island |url-status=live }}; {{Cite web |last=Yensi |first=Amy |date=September 25, 2023 |title=Swim or sit in traffic: City Island residents push for NYC Ferry stop |url=https://pix11.com/news/local-news/city-island-residents-push-for-nyc-ferry-connection/ |access-date=September 29, 2023 |website=PIX11 |archive-date=September 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928155454/https://pix11.com/news/local-news/city-island-residents-push-for-nyc-ferry-connection/ |url-status=live }} Supporters of the NYC Ferry proposal said that additional ferry service would alleviate traffic to and from the neighborhood, though a 2019 feasibility study found that a ferry route to City Island would have few riders.{{cite web | last=Bedrosian | first=Shosh | title=City Island residents pushing for ferry service for fast commutes, more foot traffic | website=CBS New York | date=April 1, 2024 | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/city-island-residents-push-for-ferry-service-for-fast-commutes-more-foot-traffic/ | access-date=April 2, 2024 | postscript=none | archive-date=April 2, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240402180232/https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/city-island-residents-push-for-ferry-service-for-fast-commutes-more-foot-traffic/ | url-status=live }}; {{cite web | last=Rahmanan | first=Anna | title=This cool neighborhood in Bronx could get a new ferry stop | website=Time Out New York | date=April 2, 2024 | url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/is-the-bronx-getting-a-new-ferry-040224 | access-date=April 2, 2024 | archive-date=April 2, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240402230841/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/is-the-bronx-getting-a-new-ferry-040224 | url-status=live }}

• A very early film shot in a City Island studio was Richard III (1912),{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0002461/|title=Richard III|via=www.imdb.com|access-date=June 28, 2018|archive-date=August 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801071843/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0002461/|url-status=live}} the oldest surviving American feature-length film.{{cite news |title=Movie History Emerges from a Basement |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/17/movies/movie-history-emerges-from-a-basement.html |work=The New York Times |date=September 17, 1996 |access-date=October 30, 2015 |last1=Weinraub |first1=Bernard |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304004043/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/17/movies/movie-history-emerges-from-a-basement.html |url-status=live }}
• Butterfield 8 (1960), starring Elizabeth Taylor, who won an Oscar for this role.
• Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), directed by Sidney Lumet; starring Katharine Hepburn and Jason Robards Jr.
• Awakenings (1990), directed by Penny Marshall; starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams
• A Bronx Tale (1993), with Chazz Palminteri and De Niro (making his directorial debut as well), which featured the City Island Bridge and one scene filmed in the parking lot of Johnny's Reef Restaurant.{{cite book | title = Travel New York City - Illustrated Guide and Maps | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=w-6fjsplSRAC&q=%22elizabeth+taylor%22+%22long+island%22&pg=PT460 | isbn = 9781605010281 | publisher = MobileReference ebook | year = 2010 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• Love Is All There Is (1996), with Lainie Kazan and Angelina Jolie
• Don't Say a Word (2001), starring Michael Douglas and Brittany Murphy, filmed at the Hart Island Ferry and Hart Island.{{cite news|title=An Island Of the Dead Fascinates The Living|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/27/nyregion/an-island-of-the-dead-fascinates-the-living.html|work=The New York Times|date=January 27, 2003|access-date=October 30, 2015|last1=Santora|first1=Marc|archive-date=November 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111023538/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/27/nyregion/an-island-of-the-dead-fascinates-the-living.html|url-status=live}}
• Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) was filmed at Delmours Point, which is the mansion where Long Days Journey into Night was filmed.
• The Groomsmen (2006), directed by Edward Burns, was filmed at many locations on City Island.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455958/locations|title=The Groomsmen (2006)|publisher=IMDb|access-date=June 28, 2018|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305140406/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455958/locations|url-status=live}}
• Louis Lombardi shot many scenes in Dough Boys (2008) on the island.
• Margot at the Wedding (2007); written and directed by Noah Baumbach, and starring Nicole Kidman. It was filmed on City Island Avenue and other locations on the island.
• City Island (2009)—a comedy-drama starring Andy García, Julianna Margulies, and Steven Strait as members of a dysfunctional family living on City Island—was shot on location and set there for the majority of the film's plot. The film won the Audience Favorite Award at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.{{Cite web |last=Gootman |first=Elissa |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/nyregion/14island.html |title=A Bronx Island in Many Roles, Even as Itself |work=The New York Times |date=March 12, 2010 |access-date=March 13, 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911162754/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/nyregion/14island.html?_r=1 |archive-date=11 September 2012}}
• Douglas returned to City Island with actor Danny DeVito to film Solitary Man (2009) in the City Island Diner.
• Jessica Alba co-starred in An Invisible Sign of My Own (2009) there.
• The documentary film Weiner (2016) includes a scene at a meeting of Democratic party voters on City Island.

• James Gregory Kingston's novel, The City Island Messenger, uses City Island as the backdrop for a story about a young boy delivering Western Union telegrams that break the sad news of soldiers' deaths to families, over a span of a week during World War II, during the Battle of Midway
• In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Bluebeard, the character Dan Gregory states that his {{convert|80|ft|m|adj=on}} yacht, the Ararat, was dry-docked on City Island
• William Fisher's 1952 novel, The Waiters, is about African American workers at an enormous seafood restaurant on City Island.{{Cite web |title=William Fisher's The Waiters |url=https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/tag/william-fishers-the-waiters/ |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=Restaurant-ing through history |language=en |archive-date=March 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317120819/https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/tag/william-fishers-the-waiters/ |url-status=live }}
• In Holly Black's Ironside, Kaye and Corny go to City Island as a means to get to Hart Island.{{Cite book|last=Black|first=Holly|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1147296258|title=Ironside|date=October 20, 2020|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-5344-8455-9|oclc=1147296258|access-date=August 10, 2020|archive-date=March 22, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240322134922/https://search.worldcat.org/title/1147296258|url-status=live}}

Numerous television shows have featured or been shot on City Island. For example:

• Car 54, Where Are You?{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054528/locations|title=Car 54, Where Are You? (TV Series 1961–1963)|via=www.imdb.com|access-date=June 28, 2018|archive-date=August 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150802014202/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054528/locations|url-status=live}}
• Comedian Jerry Seinfeld visited City Island Diner on the island with Ricky Gervais in one of the webisodes of his Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee{{cite web|title=Mad Man in a Death Machine|url=http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/ricky-gervais-mad-man-in-a-death-machine|access-date=October 30, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930060718/http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/ricky-gervais-mad-man-in-a-death-machine|archive-date=September 30, 2015}}
• Coronet Blue
• The Law & Order episode "Maritime" showed the City Island bridge.
• The Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Sound Bodies", which was based on a real-life story of several local teenagers who drowned in Long Island Sound near City Island.
• The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Melancholy Pursuit" partially takes place on City Island.
• The fictional city of Hyde in the series finale of the US version of Life on Mars was filmed on City Island.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cntraveler.com/the-intel|title=The Intel|website=Condé Nast Traveler|access-date=January 15, 2019|archive-date=January 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190112200012/https://www.cntraveler.com/the-intel|url-status=live}}
• The Amazon series Sneaky Pete filmed on City Island during season 1.
• Episode 0946 of Sesame Street, which aired in 1976.

Since 2002, the film production company Harrington Talents has had its offices and studio located on City Island. Notable celebrities who have worked on their productions include rapper and actor Ice-T, and professional wrestler Bruno Sammartino.

Notable current and former residents of the island include:

• Anthony Amato (1920–2011) and Sally Amato (1917–2000), founders and former directors of Amato Opera.{{Cite web |author-link=Margalit Fox |last=Fox |first=Margalit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/arts/music/anthony-amato-founder-of-amato-opera-is-dead-at-91.html |title=Anthony Amato, Founder of Amato Opera, Is Dead at 91 |work=The New York Times |date=December 14, 2011 |access-date=September 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140810062356/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/arts/music/anthony-amato-founder-of-amato-opera-is-dead-at-91.html?_r=0 |archive-date=10 August 2014 |quote=Anthony Amato, the founder and artistic director of the Amato Opera Theater, the scrappy, often threadbare and very rarely dull chamber opera company on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that was a mainstay of New York's cultural life for 61 years, died on Tuesday at his home on City Island, in the Bronx.}}{{Cite web |last=Kozinn |first=Allan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/18/arts/sally-amato-82-a-founder-of-an-intimate-opera-company.html |title=Sally Amato, 82, a Founder Of an Intimate Opera Company |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240322113330/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/18/arts/sally-amato-82-a-founder-of-an-intimate-opera-company.html |archive-date=2024-03-22 |work=The New York Times |date=August 18, 2000 |access-date=September 24, 2017 |quote=Sally Amato, a singer and actress who founded the Amato Opera with her husband, the conductor Anthony Amato, died on Wednesday at her home in City Island in the Bronx. She was 82.}}
• Harry Carey (1878–1947), one of silent film's earliest superstars.{{Cite web |last=Berger |first=Meyer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/05/07/archives/about-new-york.html |title=About New York |work=The New York Times |date=May 7, 1940 |access-date=September 24, 2017 |quote=Harry Carey's description of City Island when he was a boy in the eighties made a hoarse and mildly profane pastorale. |archive-date=May 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180527023430/https://www.nytimes.com/1940/05/07/archives/about-new-york.html |url-status=live}}
• Adolfo Carrión Jr. (born 1961), former Bronx Borough President.{{Cite web |date=2009-02-22 |title=2-Minute Bio: Adolfo Carrion - TIME |url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1880883,00.html |access-date=2024-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090222175311/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1880883,00.html |archive-date=February 22, 2009}}
• Clinton Leupp (born 1965), drag performer, better known by his drag persona Coco Peru and actor (films To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar and Trick).{{Cite web |date=2014-12-05 |title=New Yorker Spotlight: Drag Queen Coco Peru Reminisces About Her Hometown of City Island in the Bronx {{!}} 6sqft |url=https://www.6sqft.com/new-yorker-spotlight-drag-queen-coco-peru-reminisces-about-her-hometown-of-city-island-in-the-bronx/ |access-date=2024-03-21 |language=en-US |quote=Larger-than-life personality and drag queen extraordinaire Coco Peru's life today couldn't be much further from her years spent as a child on the quiet streets of City Island. ... Coco: I was born in Pelham Bay General hospital in August of 1965 and brought directly home to City Island. I lived there until sometime in the mid-1990s. |archive-date=September 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924230249/https://www.6sqft.com/new-yorker-spotlight-drag-queen-coco-peru-reminisces-about-her-hometown-of-city-island-in-the-bronx/ |url-status=live}}
• Bruce McRae (1867–1927), silent film actor.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/08/24/archives/hearing-on-theatre-ends-federal-trade-board-gets-data-in-case-of.html |title=Hearing On Theatre Ends.; Federal Trade Board Gets Data In Case of Western Movie Groups. |work=The New York Times |date=August 24, 1927 |access-date=September 24, 2017 |quote=Bruce McRae, actor, who died at his home at City Island on May 7, left an estate appraised yesterday at $237858 gross. |archive-date=July 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722184757/https://www.nytimes.com/1927/08/24/archives/hearing-on-theatre-ends-federal-trade-board-gets-data-in-case-of.html |url-status=live}}
• George Meany (1894–1980), union leader who served as president of the AFL–CIO.{{Cite web |url=http://savannahclc.org/laborhistoryarchives.htm |title=Today in Labor History Archives |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911082528/http://savannahclc.org/laborhistoryarchives.htm |archive-date=September 11, 2009 |work=BigLabor.com |access-date=October 16, 2009 |quote=August 16: George Meany, plumber, founding AFL-CIO president, born in City Island, Bronx – 1894}}
• Henry B. Nevins (1878–1959), master yacht builder.{{Cite magazine|title=Modern Living: As Idle as a Painted Ship|magazine=Time|date=June 12, 1954|access-date=March 16, 2020|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,861010,00.html|archive-date=October 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022093345/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,861010,00.html|url-status=live}}
• Vincent Pastore (born 1946), actor known for his portrayal of Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on the TV series The Sopranos.{{Cite news |last=Kappstatter |first=Bob |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2008/01/22/2008-01-22_bronx_spotlight_on_vincent_pastore.html |title=Bronx spotlight on Vincent Pastore |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080404180024/http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2008/01/22/2008-01-22_bronx_spotlight_on_vincent_pastore.html |archive-date=April 4, 2008 |work=Daily News (New York) |date=January 22, 2008 |access-date=October 15, 2009 |quote=Vincent Pastore does not sleep with the fishes. He does, however, live close to them, on City Island.}}
• Carlos D. Ramirez (1946–1999), publisher of El Diario La Prensa.{{Cite web |last=Ravo |first=Nick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/13/nyregion/carlos-d-ramirez-52-publisher-of-el-diario.html |title=Carlos D. Ramirez, 52, Publisher of El Diario |work=The New York Times |date=July 13, 1999 |access-date=September 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909082125/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/13/nyregion/carlos-d-ramirez-52-publisher-of-el-diario.html |archive-date=9 September 2012 |quote=Carlos D. Ramirez, the publisher of the oldest and one of the largest Spanish-language newspapers in the United States, El Diario/La Prensa, died on Sunday at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 52 and lived on City Island in the Bronx}}
• Red Buttons (1919–2006), comedian-actor who got his start at Ryan's Inn wearing a bellhop uniform with large red buttons.{{Cite web |last=Rothstein |first=Mervyn |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/arts/14buttons.html |title=Comedian Red Buttons Dies at 87 |work=The New York Times |date=July 14, 2006 |access-date=September 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120914083633/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/arts/14buttons.html?_r=1 |archive-date=14 September 2012 |quote=While attending Evander Childs High School, Aaron got a job as a bellhop and singer at Ryan's, a bar on City Island in the Bronx, where he got the name Red Buttons: since he wore a bellhop uniform, he was, naturally, called Buttons, and at the time his hair was red.}}
• Oliver Sacks (1933–2015), who wrote the book Awakenings, whose adaptation was filmed at a house similar to his own, but on a different street on the island.{{Cite web |last=Golden |first=Tim |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/16/nyregion/bronx-doctor-has-best-seller-hit-movie-and-no-job.html |title=Bronx Doctor Has Best Seller, Hit Movie and No Job |work=The New York Times |date=February 16, 1991 |access-date=October 15, 2009 |quote=Four white lab coats were known to be somewhere around his red-shingled house on City Island in the Bronx, just not anywhere in particular. |archive-date=March 23, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323103818/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/16/nyregion/bronx-doctor-has-best-seller-hit-movie-and-no-job.html? |url-status=live}} He would routinely swim around the entire island, or swim vast distances away from the island and back.{{cite news |last=Cowles |first=Gregory |title=Oliver Sacks, Neurologist Who Wrote About the Brain's Quirks, Dies at 82 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/science/oliver-sacks-dies-at-82-neurologist-and-author-explored-the-brains-quirks.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=30 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120235553/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/science/oliver-sacks-dies-at-82-neurologist-and-author-explored-the-brains-quirks.html |archive-date=20 January 2021}}
• Eric W. Sanderson, conservation ecologist and author.{{Cite web |title=Eric Sanderson |url=https://humansandnature.org/eric-sanderson/ |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=Center for Humans and Nature |language=en-US |archive-date=July 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730192421/https://humansandnature.org/eric-sanderson/ |url-status=live}}
• Salvatore Santoro (1913–2000), Lucchese crime family underboss.{{Cite news |last1=McKelvey |first1=Gerald |last2=Hurtado |first2=Patricia |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/100785645.html?dids=100785645:100785645&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT |title=Mob's Commission Is Guilty on All Counts Family Heads Facing Heavy Prisons Terms |work=Newsday |date=November 20, 1986 |access-date=October 16, 2009 |quote=underboss Salvatore Santoro, 71, of 90 City Island Ave., Bronx }}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
• Frank Scalice (1893–1957), Italian-American mobster who led the future Gambino crime family from 1930 to 1931, and was underboss from 1951 to 1957.{{Cite web |last1=Marino |first1=Anthony |last2=Kline |first2=Sidney |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/albert-anastasia-dies-55-gun-shots-1957-article-1.2404077 |title=Albert Anastasia, a Cosa Nostra mobster, is murdered at a barbershop in 1957 |work=New York Daily News |date=October 26, 1957 |access-date=September 24, 2017 |quote=For some time, Assistant District Attorney Albert Blinder said, his office had been trying to arrange a meeting with Anastasia to discuss the murder of Anastasia's friend, Frank Scalise, last June 17. Scalise, of 211 Kirby St., City Island, Bronx, was shot to death in a fruit store at 2380 Arthur Ave., Bronx, in a still unsolved murder. |archive-date=September 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924231640/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/albert-anastasia-dies-55-gun-shots-1957-article-1.2404077 |url-status=live}}
• Richard Waring (1911–1994), television and film actor.{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}

{{Portal|Islands|New York City}}

• Cuban Ledge
• Execution Rocks Lighthouse
• Fort Slocum
• Green Flats Reef
• Hart Island
• Pelham Islands

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Maps and charts

• [http://www.tides.info/?command=view&location=City+Island%2C+New+York City Island Tide Chart]

Articles

• [http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0246/lee.php "Close-up on City Island"] ({{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041216103047/http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0246/lee.php |date=December 16, 2004 }}). The Village Voice. 2002.
• [http://cityisland.easyphpbb.com/viewtopic.php?t=2&start=0 The City Island Digital Image Gallery]

Literature

• {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RMCBvgEACAAJ|title=City Island: Tales of the Clam Diggers|last=Payne|first=Alice|publisher=Graphicopy|year=1969|isbn=978-0-9747823-0-0}}
• {{cite book|title=City Island and Orchard Beach|last=Scott|first=Catherine|publisher=Arcadia|year=1999|isbn=978-0-7385-3546-3|location=Portsmouth, NH|oclc=56729859}}
• {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uxZrcuT90LIC|title=The Other Islands of New York City: A History and Guide|last=Seitz|first=Sharon|publisher=Countryman Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0-88150-945-8|location=Woodstock, Vt|oclc=721986309}}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PsOqaGX2wi0C|title=East Bronx, East of the Bronx River|last=Twomey|first=Bill|publisher=Arcadia|year=1999|isbn=978-0-7385-0301-1|location=Charleston, S.C.|oclc=45415303}}

{{Commons}}

• [http://www.theislandcurrent.com/ The Island Current]
• [http://www.cimages.me City Island Webcam]
• [http://www.nypl.org/branch/local/bx/ci.cfm City Island Branch Library]
• [http://schools.nyc.gov/OurSchools/Region2/X175/default.htm?searchType=school P.S. 175 City Island School]

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