Hunters Island, New York

Pelham Bay Park
Northern tip of Hunter Island in Pelham Bay Park
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Type	Municipal
Location	The Bronx, New York, USA
Coordinates	40°51′56″N 73°48′30″W / 40.86556°N 73.80833°W / 40.86556; -73.80833Coordinates: 40°51′56″N 73°48′30″W / 40.86556°N 73.80833°W / 40.86556; -73.80833
Area	2,772 acres (1,122 ha)
Created	1888
Operated by	New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
Public transit access	Subway: Pelham Bay Park ( ​) MTA New York City Bus: Bx29 Bee-Line Bus: 45

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 (1,122 ha), the largest public park in New York City. The park is more than three times the size of Manhattan's Central Park. The park is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks).

Before its creation, the land comprising the current Pelham Bay Park was part of Anne Hutchinson's short-lived dissident colony. Part of New Netherland, it was destroyed in 1643 by a Siwanoy attack in reprisal for the unrelated massacres carried out under Willem Kieft's direction of the Dutch West India Company's New Amsterdam colony. In 1654 an Englishman named Thomas Pell purchased 50,000 acres (200 km²) from the Siwanoy, land which would become known as Pelham Manor after Charles II's 1666 charter. During the American Revolutionary War, the land was a buffer between British-held New York City and rebel-held Westchester, serving as the site of the Battle of Pell's Point, where Massachusetts militia hiding behind stone walls (still visible at one of the park's golf courses) stopped a British advance.

The park was created in 1888, under the auspices of the Bronx Parks Department, largely inspired by the vision of John Mullaly, and passed to New York City when the part of the Bronx east of the Bronx River was annexed to the city in 1895. Orchard Beach, one of the city's most popular, was created through the efforts of Robert Moses in the 1930s.