Description
City Island is a small island in the Bronx with the air of a seaside village: about 2.4 kilometers of seafood restaurants, boatyards, yacht clubs and Victorian houses, at the far western end of Long Island Sound, joined to the mainland by a bridge.
Most of life runs along City Island Avenue, lined on both sides with seafood restaurants, where lobster is the specialty, and antique shops. At the southern tip, Belden Point looks out over the Sound, and the small City Island Nautical Museum, in an old schoolhouse, tells the island's seafaring past.
Many America's Cup winners were built in its boatyards. Islanders keep a tradition of their own: anyone born here is a "clam digger", while a resident born elsewhere is a "mussel sucker".
Most of life runs along City Island Avenue, lined on both sides with seafood restaurants, where lobster is the specialty, and antique shops. At the southern tip, Belden Point looks out over the Sound, and the small City Island Nautical Museum, in an old schoolhouse, tells the island's seafaring past.
Many America's Cup winners were built in its boatyards. Islanders keep a tradition of their own: anyone born here is a "clam digger", while a resident born elsewhere is a "mussel sucker".