Description
Marsha P. Johnson State Park is a riverside park on the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn: 4.5 hectares of lawns and paths along the East River, with wide views of the Williamsburg Bridge and the Midtown Manhattan skyline across the water.
It is a place for a walk or a lazy hour on the grass at sunset, when Manhattan lights up. In summer the park has hosted outdoor concerts, and locals nicknamed it the Williamsburg Waterfront.
The lawns cover the site of an old railroad terminal, opened in 1870 as Palmer's Dock. The park opened in 2007 as East River State Park, and in 2020 it took the name of the gay rights activist Marsha P. Johnson: the first New York state park named after an LGBTQ person.
The new plantings recall Johnson's love of fresh flowers. She liked to say that her middle initial stood for "Pay it no mind", the words chosen in 2022 for a new gate to the park.
It is a place for a walk or a lazy hour on the grass at sunset, when Manhattan lights up. In summer the park has hosted outdoor concerts, and locals nicknamed it the Williamsburg Waterfront.
The lawns cover the site of an old railroad terminal, opened in 1870 as Palmer's Dock. The park opened in 2007 as East River State Park, and in 2020 it took the name of the gay rights activist Marsha P. Johnson: the first New York state park named after an LGBTQ person.
The new plantings recall Johnson's love of fresh flowers. She liked to say that her middle initial stood for "Pay it no mind", the words chosen in 2022 for a new gate to the park.