Customer Reviews

City Island and Orchard Beach (NY) (Images of America)

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This was my home town growing up. City Island is a very unusual and ideal place to grow up and live. Very close knit community, home town feel in New York. Really enjoyed the detailed history that this book provided and it filled in alot of information that I, an Islander, did not even know! Highly recommend this book.

The presentation contains some very memorable pictures
of the old Bronx/Westchester Line. i.e.

o the Belden Point Pier
o South End City Island
o McDaniel Bungalow (20s)
o St. Mary's Star of the Sea
o Grace Episcopal Church
o Split Rock at the Bronx/Westchester Line
o City Island Bridge (1908)

There are many scenes which contain the residents of
yesteryear. Some of the portraits may have been the
parents and grandparents of people I knew at one time.
The acquisition would be perfect for students of the
local history and culture. I remember many of these
scenes from childhood. Some still exist today.

It was said that the research of Terhune, with the courageous assistance of Isoros, was the seminal work concerning the study of the cute community of City Island. Well hold on to your hats because C. A. Scott has come to town with an exciting new approach to the study of "community" with a statistical model that is pure and honest!

The preface could have been bettor served had the Farley Messinger theory been presented with some color and less anxiety--- which is why I can only give Scott only 4 stars for her otherwise exciting book.