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The Blauzes

The Blauzes are two small New York City islands in City Island Harbor which are part of a reef extending 600 yards northwest of the northern tip of Hart Island.

The Blauzes
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The place

The Blauzes are two small New York City islands in City Island Harbor which are part of a reef extending 600 yards northwest of the northern tip of Hart Island. They are composed of Manhattan schist bedrock with a slightly bluish tint and are semi-hemispherical in shape.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around The Blauzes

9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Pelham Bay Park

    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, the largest public park in New York City.

    2.9 km · public park in the Bronx, New York · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Beacon Towers

    Beacon Towers was a Gilded Age mansion on Sands Point in the village of Sands Point on the North Shore of Long Island, New York. It was built from 1917 to 1918 for Alva Belmont, the ex-wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt and the widow, since 1908, of Oliver Belmont.

    3.9 km · mansion on Sands Point in the village of Sands Point on the North Shore of Long Island, New York · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Execution Rocks Light

    Execution Rocks Light is a lighthouse in the middle of Long Island Sound on the border between New Rochelle and Sands Point, New York. It stands 55 feet tall, with a white light flashing every 10 seconds.

    3.6 km · lighthouse in New York, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Orchard Beach

    Orchard Beach is the only public beach in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The 115-acre, 1.1-mile-long beach is part of Pelham Bay Park and is situated on the western end of Long Island Sound.

    1.6 km · Public beach in New York City · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    City Island Bridge

    The City Island Bridge is a bridge in the New York City borough of the Bronx, connecting City Island with Rodman's Neck on the mainland. The original bridge, which carried vehicles from 1901 to 2015, was replaced by the current bridge, which opened in 2017.

    1.7 km · bridge in the New York City borough of the Bronx, connecting City Island with Rodman's Neck · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Pelham Bay Bridge

    The Pelham Bay Bridge, also known as the Amtrak Hutchinson River Bridge, is a two-track movable railroad bridge that carries the Northeast Corridor over the Hutchinson River in the Bronx, New York, upstream from the vehicular/pedestrian Pelham Bridge. It is owned by Amtrak, which provides passenger service, and is used by CSX Transportation and the Providence & Worcester Railroad for freight traffic.

    3.6 km · railroad bridge in the Bronx, New York · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bartow-Pell Mansion

    The Bartow–Pell Mansion is a historic house museum at 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.

    2.8 km · landmark and museum located in Pelham Bay Park, New York City · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Grace Episcopal Church

    Grace Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church at 116 City Island Avenue in The Bronx, New York, New York. The church was built in 1862 in the Carpenter Gothic style, and the rectory was built around that year in the Italian Villa style.

    2.5 km · church building in The Bronx, United States of America · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Pelham Bridge

    The Pelham Bridge is a bascule bridge located in the New York City borough of the Bronx, just downstream of the railroad Pelham Bay Bridge. It carries Shore Road and a walkway along the downstream side, over the Hutchinson River.

    3.5 km · bridge in the Bronx, New York · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to The Blauzes

Airports
LaGuardia (LGA), 12 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 25 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 38 km
  • Hartford → The Blauzes
    135 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · $13–18
  • Philadelphia → The Blauzes
    155 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · $14–20
  • Albany → The Blauzes
    199 km · quickest by road, 4h 17m · $20–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for The Blauzes

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for The Blauzes. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundIf you happen to be staying in or venturing to the southeast Bronx, consider taking a NYC Ferry to the Soundview (connections to buses Bx39 and Bx27) or Throgs Neck docks (free parking) for a more unique experience than riding the subway underground (you'll do plenty of that in NYC).
  • Get aroundIf the salt water views are making you thirsty, grab a drink at the ferry's snack bar.
  • Get aroundThe fare is a flat $4 with free transfers to other ferries for 120 minutes.
  • Get aroundCheck the official NYC Ferry website for current maps and schedules.

From Wikivoyage: Bronx, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    58 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    538 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,643 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,650 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,773 km

If you know how people move in The Blauzes – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to The Blauzes

The Blauzes is 8 km from The Bronx, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hart Islandisland in the Bronx, New York City, United States, at the western end of Long Island Sound900 m
  • City Islandisland and neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City1.9 km
  • Rat Islandisland in the Bronx, New York City, United States900 m
  • Hunter Islandpeninsula in the Bronx, New York City, United States2.1 km
  • High Islandisland in the Bronx, New York City, United States1 km
  • Eastchester BaySound in New York City, USA3.6 km