Description
Gantry Plaza State Park is a riverside park of about 5 hectares in Long Island City, Queens, built on an old dockyard on the East River: from its piers the view takes in the United Nations headquarters and the whole Midtown Manhattan skyline.
The park is named after its gantries, restored transfer bridges from 1925 that loaded freight railcars onto barges bound for Manhattan. To the north glows the Pepsi-Cola sign, 37 meters of ruby-red neon script from 1939, moved here from the old bottling plant and now a city landmark.
Along the waterfront promenade there are picnic tables, a playground and playing fields, and fishing and crabbing are allowed from one of the piers.
Film fans may recognize the pier and the Pepsi sign: they appear in the final scenes of Munich and The Interpreter.
The park is named after its gantries, restored transfer bridges from 1925 that loaded freight railcars onto barges bound for Manhattan. To the north glows the Pepsi-Cola sign, 37 meters of ruby-red neon script from 1939, moved here from the old bottling plant and now a city landmark.
Along the waterfront promenade there are picnic tables, a playground and playing fields, and fishing and crabbing are allowed from one of the piers.
Film fans may recognize the pier and the Pepsi sign: they appear in the final scenes of Munich and The Interpreter.