A report on Pelham Bay Park

Aerial view of the park (pictured in the center left)
Map of Pelham Bay Park's future site at the time of the Battle of Pell's Point
Mouth of Hutchinson River, in the park
Rock outcropping in Pelham Bay Park
Orchard Beach promenade, built in the 1930s
Aerial view of Orchard Beach
Hunter mansion
Former private mansion on Rodman's Neck
Glover's Rock: "Near this site on October 12, 1776 Col. John Glover and 600 patriots held off British and Hessian forces under Gen Howe long enough to save Washington's troops from destruction, enabling them to withdraw to Westchester and ultimate victory."
Split Rock
Bird watching is a popular activity in the park
Panoramic view of Orchard Beach, facing from the bathhouse pavilion
South side of statue
Clubhouse
The west end of the City Island Bridge (original bridge pictured) is located inside Pelham Bay Park.
Pedestrian overpass to the park's eponymous station

Municipal park located in the northeast corner of the New York City borough of the Bronx.

- Pelham Bay Park
Aerial view of the park (pictured in the center left)

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The Bronx

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Borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.

Borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.

Map of southern Westchester County in 1867. This, along with the southern part of the former Town of Yonkers, became the Bronx.
Grand Concourse and 161st Street as it appeared around 1900
The Simpson Street elevated station was built in 1904 and opened on November 26, 1904. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 2004, reference #04001027.
Row houses on a location where there was once burnt rubble. The Bronx has since seen revitalization
The Bronx - All-America City sign
Location of the Bronx (red) within New York City (remainder white)
Aerial view of the Bronx from the east at night
The New York Times 1896 map of parks and transit in the newly annexed Bronx. Marble Hill is in pink, cut off by water from the rest of Manhattan in orange. Van Cortlandt, Pelham Bay and Crotona Parks are light green, as is Bronx Park (now home to the New York Botanical Garden and Bronx Zoo), Woodlawn Cemetery medium green, sports facilities dark green, the not-yet-built Jerome Park Reservoir light blue, St. John's College (now Fordham University) violet, and the city limits of the newly expanded New York red.
Northern tip of Hunter Island in Pelham Bay Park
The neighborhood of Co-op City is the largest cooperative housing development in the world.
A sunken boat off the shore of City Island
Grand Concourse at East 165th Street
Poverty concentrations within the Bronx, by Census Tract
The Bronx Zoo is the largest zoo in New York City, and among the largest in the country.
The Bronx's P.L.A.Y.E.R.S. Club Steppers performing at the 2007 Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival in Brooklyn. (Note the T-shirts' inscription "I ♥ BX" [Bronx], echoing the ubiquitous slogan "I ♥ NY" [I Love New York] ).
New Yankee Stadium at 161st and River Avenue
The Hub on Third Avenue
Renovated Prow Building, part of the original Bronx Terminal Market
An aerial view of the Bronx, Harlem River, Harlem, Hudson River and George Washington Bridge
Morris Heights, a Bronx neighborhood of over 45,000
Street scene on Fordham Road, a major street in the Bronx
The Bronx High School of Science
Fordham University's Keating Hall
Bronx–Whitestone Bridge
An aerial view of the Throgs Neck Bridge
Middletown Road subway station on the
NYC Transit bus operating on the Bx40 route in University Heights

About a quarter of the Bronx's area is open space, including Woodlawn Cemetery, Van Cortlandt Park, Pelham Bay Park, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo in the borough's north and center.

Siwanoy

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The Siwanoy were the Indigenous Americans of Long Island Sound along the coasts of what are now The Bronx, Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut.

The Siwanoy were the Indigenous Americans of Long Island Sound along the coasts of what are now The Bronx, Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut.

A group of Siwanoy, led by Wampage I, killed Anne Hutchinson, six of her children, and nine others in August 1643, near Split Rock, an ancient landmark.

1884 nautical chart

City Island, Bronx

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Neighborhood in the northeastern Bronx in New York City, located on an island of the same name approximately 1.5 mi long by 0.5 mi wide.

Neighborhood in the northeastern Bronx in New York City, located on an island of the same name approximately 1.5 mi long by 0.5 mi wide.

1884 nautical chart
Looking southwest at marina and distant Throgs Neck Bridge
St. Mary Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church
Fish restaurants on City Island at City Island Avenue
City Island as seen from Orchard Beach in the winter of 2007
The former Public School 17, now the City Island Nautical Museum
Old City Island Bridge (now demolished)
New City Island Causeway Bridge

City Island is located at the extreme western end of Long Island Sound, south of Pelham Bay and east of Eastchester Bay.

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Van Cortlandt Park

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1146 acre park located in the borough of the Bronx in New York City.

1146 acre park located in the borough of the Bronx in New York City.

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Remains of the New York and Putnam Railroad, Van Cortlandt Station inside the park
Van Cortlandt Park, Oscar Florianus Bluemner, 1936
Rocky terrain in the park
The Sachkerah Woods Playground, located at Van Cortlandt Park's southeast corner
Putnam Trail entrance, looking south from the city line.
The park's own little stonehenge, a former structural stone testing site for the construction of Grand Central Terminal
The historic Van Cortlandt House, now a museum
Riverdale Stables
The lake and golf course at sunset; the former railroad bridge is at far left
View of the Parade Ground from the starting line of the cross-country course
The interchange of Henry Hudson, Saw Mill, and Mosholu Parkways in the park
The abandoned Putnam Railroad bridge over the Henry Hudson Parkway
The Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street station

However, most of this opposition was directed at the construction of Pelham Bay Park, which was then in Westchester.

Orchard Beach promenade, built in the 1930s

Orchard Beach (Bronx)

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Public beach in the Bronx, New York City.

Public beach in the Bronx, New York City.

Orchard Beach promenade, built in the 1930s
Aerial view of Orchard Beach
Facing south

The beach is part of Pelham Bay Park and is situated on the western end of Long Island Sound.

Anne Hutchinson on Trial by Edwin Austin Abbey

Anne Hutchinson

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Puritan spiritual advisor, religious reformer, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638.

Puritan spiritual advisor, religious reformer, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638.

Anne Hutchinson on Trial by Edwin Austin Abbey
Marshalsea Prison, London, where Hutchinson's father was detained for two years for "heresy"
Reverend John Cotton was Hutchinson's mentor and her reason for emigrating to New England.
Reverend John Wheelwright was an ally of Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy, and both were banished.
Governor Henry Vane strongly supported Hutchinson during the colony's difficulties.
John Winthrop presided over Hutchinson's trial in 1637 as both accuser and judge.
Reverend John Wilson had been ridiculed by Hutchinson; he made the final pronouncement of excommunication during her church trial.
Portsmouth Compact
Split Rock, near where the Hutchinson family was massacred
Massacre of the Hutchinsons
Anne Hutchinson historical plaque at Hutchinson Square, Quincy, Massachusetts, near where the Hutchinsons had a farm
Statue of Anne Hutchinson at Massachusetts State House by Cyrus Edwin Dallin
Anne Hutchinson/Mary Dyer Memorial Herb Garden at Founders' Brook Park, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Major Thomas Savage married Hutchinson's daughter Faith
Stephen A. Douglas was descended from Hutchinson

Five of her older surviving children remained in New England or in England, while she settled with her younger children near an ancient landmark, Split Rock, in what later became The Bronx in New York City.

New Rochelle, New York

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City in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state.

City in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state.

Statue of Jacob Leisler
Thomas Paine Monument
Members of the New York National Guard distribute groceries in New Rochelle on March 18, 2020
Overlooking Davids' Island
Islands along New Rochelle's waterfront
Bayside, New Rochelle, New York, by David Johnson, 1886
Fire station

The city lies 2 mi north of the New York City border (Pelham Bay Park in The Bronx).

Hunter Mansion

Hunter Island (Bronx)

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166 acre peninsula and former island in the Bronx, New York City, United States.

166 acre peninsula and former island in the Bronx, New York City, United States.

Hunter Mansion

It is situated on the western end of Long Island Sound, along the sound's northwestern shore, and is part of Pelham Bay Park in the northeastern part of the Bronx.

Pelham, New York

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Suburban town in Westchester County, approximately 10 miles northeast of Midtown Manhattan.

Suburban town in Westchester County, approximately 10 miles northeast of Midtown Manhattan.

The historic Pelham Picture House
Saint Catherine's Church
Michael Schwerner, murdered by the KKK.
Pelham Train Station, also in the village
Daronco Town House
Pelham Town Hall

It included all of City Island and present-day Pelham Bay Park east of the Hutchinson River.

New York City

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Most populous city in the United States.

Most populous city in the United States.

New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it "New York"
Fort George and the City of New York c. 1731. Royal Navy ships of the line are seen guarding what would become New York Harbor.
Columbia University was founded by royal charter in 1754 under the name of King's College.
The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776.
Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
The current 5 boroughs of Greater New York as they appeared in 1814. Bronx was in Westchester County, Queens County included modern Nassau County, Kings County had 6 towns, one of which was Brooklyn, New York City is shown by hatching in southern New York County on the island of Manhattan, and Richmond County on Staten Island.
A construction worker atop the Empire State Building as it was being built in 1930. The Chrysler Building is behind him.
Manhattan's Little Italy, Lower East Side, circa 1900
The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement
United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
The core of the New York City metropolitan area, with Manhattan Island at its center
Lower and Midtown Manhattan, as seen by a SkySat satellite in 2017
Central Park in Winter by Raymond Speers, in Munsey's Magazine, February 1900
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park was used in both the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fair, with the Unisphere as the centerpiece of the latter and which remains today.
The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity.
View of The Pond and Midtown Manhattan from the Gapstow Bridge in Central Park, one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, in 2019
California sea lions play at the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.
A map of racial distribution in New York, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people:
The landmark Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral, Midtown Manhattan
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish residents in Brooklyn. Brooklyn has the largest Jewish community in the United States, with approximately 600,000 individuals.
The Islamic Cultural Center of New York in Upper Manhattan was the first mosque built in New York City.
Ganesh Temple in Flushing, Queens, is the oldest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere.
The New York Stock Exchange, by a significant margin the world's largest stock exchange per market capitalization of its listed companies, at US$23.1 trillion as of April 2018. Pictured is the exchange's building on Wall Street.
The Deutsche Bank Center as viewed from Central Park West
Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a media center. It also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million.
The I Love New York logo, designed by Milton Glaser in 1977
Rockefeller Center is home to NBC Studios.
Times Square Studios, home of Good Morning America
Butler Library at Columbia University, described as one of the most beautiful college libraries in the United States
The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of both New York University (NYU) and its Greenwich Village neighborhood
New York-Presbyterian Hospital, affiliated with Columbia University and Cornell University, the largest hospital and largest private employer in New York City and one of the world's busiest
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is the largest police force in the United States.
Police officers of New York Police Department (NYPD)
The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) is the largest municipal fire department in the United States.
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Headquarters Building of the New York Public Library, at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street
The fast-paced streets of New York City, January 2020
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, part of Museum Mile, is one of the largest museums in the world.
Smorgasburg opened in 2011 as an open-air food market and is part of the Brooklyn Flea.
As of 2012, the city had about 6,000 hybrid taxis (shown) in service, the largest number of any city in North America.
New York City Hall is the oldest City Hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions.
The New York County Courthouse houses the New York Supreme Court and other offices.
Eric Adams, the current and 110th Mayor of New York City
New York City is home to the two busiest train stations in the U.S., including Grand Central Terminal.
The New York City Subway is the world's largest rapid transit system by number of stations.
The Port Authority Bus Terminal, the world's busiest bus station, at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street
John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States
The Staten Island Ferry shuttles commuters between Manhattan and Staten Island.
Yellow medallion taxicabs are widely recognized icons of the city.
8th Avenue, looking northward ("uptown"). Most streets and avenues in Manhattan's grid plan incorporate a one-way traffic configuration.
The George Washington Bridge, connecting Upper Manhattan (background) from Fort Lee, New Jersey across the Hudson River, is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge.
The growing skyline of Long Island City, Queens (background),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-30/nyc-s-fastest-growing-neighborhood-gets-180-million-investment|title=NYC's Fastest-Growing Neighborhood Gets $180 Million Investment|first=Henry|last=Goldman|date=October 30, 2018|publisher=Bloomberg L.P|access-date=October 30, 2018}}</ref> facing the East River and Manhattan in May 2017
The Grand Concourse in the Bronx, foreground, with Manhattan in the background in February 2018
St. George, Staten Island as seen from the Staten Island Ferry, the world's busiest passenger-only ferry system, shuttling passengers between Manhattan and Staten Island
The Asia gate entrance to the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.
The Spanish Harlem Orchestra. New York City is home to nearly 3 million Latino Americans, the largest Hispanic population of any city outside Latin America and Spain.
The Financial District of Lower Manhattan including Wall Street, the world's principal financial center

Pelham Bay Park is the largest park in New York City, at 2772 acre.