The second and by far the biggest stop on our tour was Orchard Beach, "The Bronx Riviera", a MASSIVE project built by the WPA in 1934-36 and even today (2021) it's rated as Number One among all 400-some beaches on Long Island Sound. The beach crescent is a mile long, formed by uniting various disconnected land masses and island. The monumental pavilion is closed now after having been left to deteriorate across the decades but you should have seen it when it was new. Supposedly work will start on a 75 million dollar reconstruction "soon". (I took the photo above and the next two in 2014; the rest of the photos in this section were taken June 27, 2021, by Pam or me.)