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Pelham Bay Park is a municipal park located in the northeast corner of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It is, at 2,772 acres (1,122 ha), [a] the largest public park in New York City. The park is more than three times the size of Manhattan's Central Park. The park is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC ...
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Orchard Beach (sometimes called the Bronx Riviera) is the only public beach in the New York City borough of the Bronx.The 115-acre (47 ha), 1.1-mile-long (1.8 km) beach is part of Pelham Bay Park and is situated on the western end of Long Island Sound.
Photograph shows girls from the Washington Irving High Schools, New York City, attending a Midsummer Day Festival which was held at Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx on June 23, 1911. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008 and New York Times, June 24, 1911) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Subjects: Children
Most of the neighborhood is land that was purchased by Thomas Pell in 1654, part of an original grant to the Dutch West India Company.. Despite the name, the area that is now the Pelham Bay neighborhood was not part of the historical Town of Pelham, which consisted of the modern-day town of Pelham in Westchester County as well as Pelham Bay Park and City Island in the Bronx.
Pelham Bay Park, Shore Rd. 40°52′18″N 73°48′21″W / 40.87167°N 73.80583°W / 40.87167; -73.80583 ( Bartow-Pell Mansion and Carriage Pelham Bay Park
The Bartow–Pell Mansion is a historic house museum at 895 Shore Road in the northern section of Pelham Bay Park, within the New York City borough of the Bronx.The two-story building, designed in the mid-19th century by an unknown architect, has a Greek Revival facade and federal interiors and is the last surviving manor house in the Pelham Bay Park area.
The Pelham Bay Park station is the northern terminal station of the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway.Located across from Pelham Bay Park, at the intersection of the Bruckner Expressway and Westchester Avenue in the Pelham Bay neighborhood of the Bronx, it is served by the 6 train at all times, except weekdays in the peak direction, when the <6> serves it.