Island neighborhoods

[Wio88]

Toronto Island.

Always loved visiting Toronto island when I was young. Right next to the city but it felt far away.


from Now Toronto


from cbc


from the star


from toronto-islands.ca


from helpwevegotkids.com

[volguus zildrohar]

Venice Island in Philadelphia definitely feels like the extension of Manayunk that it is. It's mainly occupied by multi-family buildings on the south end. The north end is post-imdustrial.


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[JManc]

Clear Lake Shores



Tiki Island

[jd3189]

Miami and South Florida in general has a lot with some already mentioned. Palm Beach County has the city of Palm Beach on an island.

Flying over Palm Beach by NelsonGP, on Flickr


Miami Beach is on a island along with the the Venetian Islands off the coast of Downtown Miami.

USA, Florida, Miami, venetian islands aerial view by bilwander, on Flickr


Key West is essentially an island

Key West Aerial 3 by billiamj777, on Flickr

[homebucket]

Originally Posted by jd3189

Miami and South Florida in general has a lot with some already mentioned. Palm Beach County has the city of Palm Beach on an island.

Flying over Palm Beach by NelsonGP, on Flickr


Miami Beach is on a island along with the the Venetian Islands off the coast of Downtown Miami.

USA, Florida, Miami, venetian islands aerial view by bilwander, on Flickr


Key West is essentially an island

Key West Aerial 3 by billiamj777, on Flickr

It's quite striking how populated these SoFlo cities are but also how flat. They must be in serious danger of flooding from sea level rise.

[BigDipper 80]

Wheeling Island is the most populous island in the Ohio River.

[deja vu]

Originally Posted by shivtim

Zamalek (on Gezira, which just means "island" in Arabic) is an island neighborhood in the Nile in the heart of Cairo, Egypt. It's a long skinny island, about 2.4 miles (3.86km) long and half a mile (800m) wide. It's a leafy residential neighborhood that includes the Cairo Tower (tallest structure in North Africa), the Cairo Opera House, and the Cairo Marriott which is in the Gezirah Palace commissioned for the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. Wiki says 420,000 people live on the island, but there's no citation.

Very cool. I've heard of most of these, but I did not know about this one! Fun topic - there's some obscure ones around my home state. I'll have to think about it some...

[dave8721]

Tampa has Davis and Harbour Islands adjacent to Downtown.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Da...67!4d-82.45565

[brickell]

The billionaire bunker - Indian Creek, Miami


src: https://southfloridareporter.com/spa...-30-5-million/

[ilcapo]

Im from Sweden and Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm is indeed one of my favorite city-islands together with Södermalm which is also an inner-city island-neighborhood south of Old Town.

Also Christianshavn in Copenhagen, Denmark, which includes the semi-autonomous area of "Freetown Christiania" is a personal favorite.

[xzmattzx]

Just to be clear, since apparently it wasn't clear in my initial post, this is a discussion of individual city neighborhoods that are islands. Cities that are islands, like Manhattan and Montreal, are not "island neighborhoods"; they're island cities. This is also not about entire cities that share one island with other cities and towns, like New York City on Long Island or the bulk of Miami Beach on the barrier island.

[ilcapo]

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[deja vu]

Originally Posted by xzmattzx

Just to be clear, since apparently it wasn't clear in my initial post, this is a discussion of individual city neighborhoods that are islands. Cities that are islands, like Manhattan and Montreal, are not "island neighborhoods"; they're island cities. This is also not about entire cities that share one island with other cities and towns, like New York City on Long Island or the bulk of Miami Beach on the barrier island.

Right. This brief is more challenging than it seems at first glance (I thought it was plenty clear, btw). Michigan has many, many island communities, but most of them are either (a) standalone municipalities (places like Mackinac Island, Grosse Ile Twp, etc...), or (b) far too small to really be considered a neighborhood by any common definition. But I think I've come up with two in Michigan that meet the criteria, although they are still fairly small.

1. Downtown Plainwell, MI (2019 est. pop. 3,777) - Nicknamed "The Island City" because its downtown is on an island in the Kalamazoo River. This counts, if you consider downtown Plainwell (& an adjoining residential district) as its own distinct neighborhood. The city limits extend beyond the island on most sides. Check out the city hall building - located in a portion of a former paper mill - pretty cool adaptive reuse.
   
   
2. Downtown Eaton Rapids, MI (2019 est. pop. 5,245) - similar to Plainwell, its downtown neighborhood sits on a smaller, even more distinct island in the Grand River. It is also nicknamed "Island City". The Edgewater Apartments Building - just beyond the island proper - is quite unique.

[ChiSoxRox]

Too small to be a neighborhood, but Cedar Rapids, Iowa has its civic buildings on Mays Island in the Cedar River.


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[Steely Dan]

^ similarly, the central portion of downtown Aurora, IL sits on Stolp Island in the middle of the Fox River. I don't think it's home to many residents, but it does contain many of the city's cultural institutions: theatres, science museum, casino, restaurants, art galleries, etc.


Source: https://www.gofundme.com/f/Stolp-Isl...-Center-Launch


Here's a shot of two of the historic landmarks on the island, the Paramount Theater and the 22 floor Leland Tower, which was the tallest building in chicagoland outside of the city for many decades.


Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para...rora,_Illinois)

[SIGSEGV]

Memphis seems to have a neighborhood named Mud Island, but it's no longer an island due to a river diversion in 1960. In addition to civic buildings, it appears to have some new urbanist development:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbor_Town,_Memphis

[destroycreate]

Originally Posted by homebucket

Speaking of Alameda, I was just there the other day. Pretty nice little quaint town with many Victorians. I'll have to do a photo tour of it someday. There's some great views of SF as well. Angles that are not as commonly seen as they are in postcards.





Taken by me.

Not true! You forgot the infamous Treasure Island.

Population: 3,064


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From what I've heard, the community that live there is stuck in a food desert, and it's full of crime and poverty because it's mostly housing projects.

I would hate the idea of living there...too isolated and inconvenient, but also, the soil is very toxic from what I've read (they used to put toxic waste and chemicals there) and it's landfill, so if there's a terrible earthquake, the buildings won't withstand it well.

[sopas ej]

The one for me that immediately comes to mind is the Naples neighborhood of Long Beach, CA. It's adjacent to the Marine Stadium, site of the 1932 Summer Olympic rowing competitions: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Na...8.123015?hl=en

The city of Newport Beach in Orange County also has some island neighborhoods; Balboa Island and Lido Isle... Linda Island is an exclusive gate-guarded neighborhood island.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ba...7.897071?hl=en

[destroycreate]

A few come to mind for Southern California.

The affluent enclave of Coronado, right next to downtown San Diego. Why do I love it?It's super walkable, very charming and quaint, and feels like a slice of 1950s Americana. It's immaculately manicured and picturesque. I believe 21,390 people live here. Also, there's quite a bit of victorian/craftsman architecture since the island was developed in the 1900s.


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Another that comes to mind is Newport Harbor. There, you've got several islands in including Balboa Island which is equally charming and cute (and mega expensive).


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[memph]

Here's some pictures of the two I mentioned earlier.

Trogir was one of several trading towns taking advantage of natural water features for defensive purposes in the Croatian province of Dalmatia.

The old city located on the island is home to about 1/5th of the current city of 10,000 people, with the rest spilling over onto the mainland (bottom right in the first picture) and on the larger island of Čiovo (top left).


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