Type State park Created May 1998 Phone +1 718-786-8568 | Area 12 acres (4.9 ha) Visitors 905,450 (in 2014) | |
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Location Hunters Point, Queens,
New York City, United States Operated by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Address 4-09 47th Rd, Long Island City, NY 11101, USA Hours Open today · 6AM–10PMFriday6AM–10PMSaturday6AM–10PMSunday6AM–10PMMonday6AM–10PMTuesday6AM–10PMWednesday6AM–10PMThursday6AM–10PM Similar Pepsi‑Cola Sign, Socrates Sculpture Park, Fisher Landau Center for, Hunters Point South Park, Noguchi Museum | ||
Gantry plaza state park nyc
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.
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Gantry plaza state park view
HistoryEdit
The southern portion of the park is a former dock facility and includes restored "contained apron" transfer bridges of the James B. French patent. These were built in 1925 to load and unload rail car floats that served industries on Long Island via the Long Island Rail Road tracks that used to run along 48th Avenue (now part of Hunter's Point Park). The northern portion of Gantry Plaza State Park was part of a former Pepsi bottling plant that closed in 1999.
Constructed in 1936 by the Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation, the 120-foot (37 m) long and 60-foot (18 m) high cursive, ruby-colored, neon-on-metal Pepsi-Cola sign was located on top of the bottling plant before it was dismantled and reassembled into a permanent location within the park in 2009.
The park first opened in May 1998 and was expanded in July 2009. The park is being developed in stages by the Queens West Development Corporation. The original section of Gantry Plaza State Park was designed by Thomas Balsley with Lee Weintraub, both New York City landscape architects, and Richard Sullivan, an architect. Stage 2, the new six-acre (2.4 ha) section of the park, was designed by New York City landscape architecture firm Abel Bainnson Butz and the first phase of Stage 2 opened to the public in July 2009. When complete, Gantry Plaza State Park is expected to total 40 acres (16 ha) in size.
The Pepsi-Cola sign was designated a New York City landmark on April 12, 2016.
FacilitiesEdit
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, subject to New York State Department of Environmental Conservation regulations.