Gantry Plaza State Park

Gantry Plaza State Park is a 12-acre (4.9 ha) state park on the East River in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens. The park is located in a former dockyard and manufacturing district, and includes remnants of facilities from the area’s past. The most prominent feature of the park is a collection of gantries with car float transfer bridges, which in turn were served by barges that carried freight railcars between Queens and Manhattan. The park offers picnic tables, a playground, playing fields, and a waterfront promenade with a view of United Nations Headquarters and the Midtown Manhattan skyline. Fishing and crabbing is permitted at pier #4.