Pelham Bay Park and City Island
June 20th, 2010 at 12:12 pm ETOn the way upstate yesterday, we pulled off I-95 in the upper Bronx to avoid traffic and cut the corner to the Hutch (thanks, GPS), and found ourselves at this intersection … right in front of a sign proclaiming that Pelham Bay Park, which I had never heard of and was apparently now in the middle of, is “NYC’s largest park” at around 2,500 acres, hard by Long Island Sound.
I just looked at a map. Holy cow, it’s huge!
This is worth a weekend day trip to explore, later in the summer, and a side trip to City Island, which is just down the road over a causeway to the east. I’ve been once to City Island, a New England fishing village whose presence inside the New York city limits is an accident of geography and history. I remember a main street that’s a three-way hybrid of a working waterfront town, a tourist trap, and, you know, Maspeth or Bayonne.
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by Edward Rutherfurd
by Ben Macintyre
