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Palmer’s group laid out streets and established two ferries to the mainland.

It never, of course, rivalled New York City as a seaport but it did develop thriving seaside industries. City Island became a part of New York City in 1895 when parts of the town of Pelham were annexed by NYC, and found itself in the Bronx in 1898 after consolidation, though it was still in New York County (the Bronx received a separate designation as a county only in 1914).īenjamin Palmer, who owned the island in 1761, thought of it as a potential commercial rival to New York City, and so it picked up a new nickname (it previously had been called Great Minnefords Island). It played a large part in New York City’s coastal defense until the early 20th Century.Ĭity Island was privately owned, first by the Pell family and then by the Palmer family, from 1654 until it became a part of the town of Pelham, in Westchester County, in 1819. Since it was first settled in 1761 its lifeblood has been the sea, with shipyards, sailmakers and oystermen predominating. City Island resembles a New England seaside town transplanted into the five boroughs.

City Island: Collections download the new for apple