He envisioned shipyards, and stores that could cater to the ships. He knew that ships heading north and south passed City Island using Long Island Sound as a safe inshore waterway. Palmer had the vision of developing the island into a port, which could rival that of New York. It had a population of about 1000 people, who tended farms and livestock.
Up to this point the island had been inhabited by only a few homes and farms. Palmer changed the name to New City Island, later dropping the “New.” The 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. 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. Prior to European colonialism, 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. The island is part of Bronx Community District 10, and its ZIP Code is 10464. Its land area is 0.395 square miles (1.02 km 2). The Stepping Stones Light, marking the main shipping channel into New York, is off the southern tip of City Island, near the Long Island shore.Īs of the 2020 Census, the island had a population of 4,417. The small island adjacent to the northeast is High Island. The body of water between City Island and the even smaller, uninhabited Hart Island to the east is known as City Island Harbor. City Island is part of the Pelham Islands, a group of islands that once belonged to Thomas Pell. Īt one time the island was incorporated within the boundaries of Pelham, Westchester County, New York, but the island is now part of New York City. City Island is located at the extreme western end of Long Island Sound, south of Pelham Bay Park, and east of Eastchester Bay.
City Island is a neighborhood in the northeastern Bronx in New York City, located on an island of the same name approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long by 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide.
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