Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island

Neighborhood · Bronx

Three communities share Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island: the Pelham Bay and Country Club neighborhoods of the Bronx, beside Pelham Bay Park, and City Island, a mile-and-a-half-long island at the western end of Long Island Sound.

  • 1.27 square miles
  • 29,462 residents, 2020 Census
  • 251 street corners
  • 3 subway stations
  • 11 bus routes

Thomas Pell acquired much of this land in 1654, and the island got its name from Benjamin Palmer, who bought it in 1761 and planned a major seaport there with shipyards. City Island voted in 1895 to join the city in exchange for a bridge, a local boatyard turned out many America's Cup contenders and winners, and the City Island Nautical Museum now occupies the old P.S. 17 schoolhouse, built in 1897.

Sources: City Island, Bronx (Wikipedia); Pelham Bay, Bronx (Wikipedia); About BXCB10 (Bronx Community Board 10).

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Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island borders three areas, and City Island Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 23 of 251.

Street map of Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island, Bronx, outlined among Throgs Neck-Schuylerville, Pelham Bay Park and Hutchinson Metro Center, with its three subway stations and Colucci Playground.Throgs Neck-SchuylervillePelham Bay ParkHutchinson Metro Center
  • Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Pelham Bay Park lines 6 accessible
  • Buhre Av lines 6
  • Middletown Rd lines 6

Getting around

Three subway stations and buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island.

  • 3 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 9 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Bx5
  • Bx8
  • Bx12
  • Bx12-SBS
  • Bx23
  • Bx24
  • Bx29
  • Q50
  • T103

Express bus routes

  • BxM8
  • BxM9

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Bronx corner.

  • 490 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 2.0 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 100 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 13 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
7
Accessible pedestrian signals
6
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
2
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 40,744 school-zone speed camera tickets at six corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Macdonough Place & Griswold Avenue, 23,590

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 29,462 residents in Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island, about 23,200 per square mile.

  • 12,920 homes, 2020 Census
  • 643 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,563 residential lots hold buildings from 1940 or earlier, and 50% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
12 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Colucci Playground (4 acres), Ambrosini Field (3.6 acres) and Palmer Inlet (2 acres)
Designated landmark
The City Island Nautical Museum

Streets and trees

Trees
3,714 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, Callery pear and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
City Island Avenue, with 23 of the area's 251
Height above sea level
From 7 feet at Hunter Avenue & Ditmars Street to 54 feet at Plymouth Avenue & Daniel Street
Honorary street names
20 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists nine schools and one library in Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island.

Public schools
4
Charter and private schools
5
Library
City Island Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island: City Island World War Memorial.

  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 398 major felonies at places in Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island

  • 295 major felonies in 2024
  • 779 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island, the NYPD recorded another 84 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 16.4 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island.

Police precinct
45th
Major felonies recorded at places in Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 120 major felonies at places in Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island, against 176 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.