Description
Grand Ferry Park is a small waterfront park at the end of Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on the spot where ferries once left for Manhattan. It is a quiet corner of lawn and rocks right on the East River, with a wide view across the water to Manhattan.
In the evening couples and friends sit on the boulders by the water to admire the view, while joggers and picnickers share the paths. The tall red-brick smokestack rising from a circle of cobblestones is what remains of a molasses plant once used by Pfizer.
The ferry to the Lower East Side began in 1802 and stopped in 1918. The abandoned landing became one of the few stretches of the Williamsburg shore open to the public: in 1974 neighbors built a first park here with recycled materials, and the present park opened in 1998.
In the evening couples and friends sit on the boulders by the water to admire the view, while joggers and picnickers share the paths. The tall red-brick smokestack rising from a circle of cobblestones is what remains of a molasses plant once used by Pfizer.
The ferry to the Lower East Side began in 1802 and stopped in 1918. The abandoned landing became one of the few stretches of the Williamsburg shore open to the public: in 1974 neighbors built a first park here with recycled materials, and the present park opened in 1998.