City Island History

What is this City Island eatery known as today?

In 1654 this treaty was signed by Thomas Pell and the Native American Lenape people covering the purchase of 50,000 acres of land, which included City Island, much of Westchester County, and what is now the east Bronx.

From that treaty signed in 1654 to its incorporation in 1898 as part of the Bronx, a look at the early history of City Island.