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==== City Island and Hart Island ==== {{Main|City Island, Bronx|Hart Island (Bronx)}} [[File:CityIsland.jpg|thumb|A sunken boat off the shore of [[City Island, Bronx|City Island]]]] ([[Bronx Community Board|Bronx Community District]] 10) City Island is east of [[Pelham Bay Park]] in [[Long Island Sound]] and is known for its seafood restaurants and private waterfront homes.<ref>{{cite news | last=Fischler | first=Marcelle Sussman | title=City Island, a Quainter Side of the Bronx |work=The New York Times | date=September 13, 2015 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/realestate/city-island-a-quainter-side-of-the-bronx.html | access-date=January 23, 2016}}</ref> City Island's single shopping street, City Island Avenue, is reminiscent of a small New England town. It is connected to [[Rodman's Neck]] on the mainland by the [[City Island Bridge]]. East of City Island is [[Hart Island (New York)|Hart Island]], which is uninhabited and not open to the public. It once served as a prison and now houses New York City's [[potter's field]] for unclaimed bodies.<ref>{{cite web | last=Walshe | first=Sadhbh | title='Like a prison for the dead': welcome to Hart Island, home to New York City's pauper graves |work=[[The Guardian]]| date=June 3, 2015 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/03/hart-island-new-york-city-mass-burial-graves | access-date=January 23, 2016}}</ref>
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