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The Kazimiroff Nature Trail and the Pelham Bay Park Environmental Center opened in June 1986. [115] [114] [72] A $1 million renovation of the Orchard Beach pavilions (equivalent to $2,780,000 in 2023) was completed by 1986. [116]
Hunter Island (also Hunters Island or Hunter's Island) is a 166-acre (67 ha) peninsula and former island in the Bronx, New York City, United States. [2] 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.
At 1,146 acres (464 ha), Van Cortlandt Park is the third-largest park in New York City, [a] behind the Staten Island Greenbelt (1,778 acres (720 ha)) and Pelham Bay Park (2,772 acres (1,122 ha)). [ 187 ] [ 186 ] [ 188 ] It has numerous attractions and features that are both recreational and educational.
The Bartow-Pell Woods and Pelham Bay Park's lagoon are to the east, while the Pelham Golf Course is to the northwest. Orchard Beach is across the lagoon. [5] A hiking path called the Siwanoy Trail loops around the estate. [11] The nearest New York City Subway station is the Pelham Bay Park station, [12] [13] located across the Hutchinson River. [5]
The southern third of the peninsula is used as a firing range by the New York City Police Department; the remaining wooded section is part of Pelham Bay Park. The north side is joined to what used to be Hunters Island and Twin Island to form Orchard Beach and a parking lot. [2] Rodman's Neck has three meadows.
Pelham Road, known as Shore Road within the Bronx, is a historic 4.1-mile (6.6 km) north–south road that runs along the Long Island Sound shoreline from Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx through the southern Westchester County, New York communities of New Rochelle and Pelham Manor.
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[1] [2] [3] The island, originally united by a causeway to the mainland, comprises a tract of thirty acres in the Lower Harbor of New Rochelle, situated between Neptune Island, Glen Island, and Hunter Island in New York City's Pelham Bay Park. The narrow strip of water originally making it an island was eventually filled in, converting this ...