Friends of Gantry Neighborhood Parks is a community based volunteer organization dedicated to help care for Gantry Plaza State Park and the Street Trees and City Parks of LIC, NY

Their mission is to enhance the quality of life in Long Island City, NY, by promoting awareness of, concern for and participation in the publicly accessible green and open space in the neighborhood and along the waterfront.

 Friends of Gantry Neighborhood Parks is the community based organization that cares for the street trees and green spaces of the Hunters Point neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens and is the parent organization of Friends of Gantry Plaza State Park, Inc. that focuses on caring for Gantry Plaza State Park.

Friends was started in 1998 by a group of concerned neighbors in the Hunters Point, Long Island City section of New York City, in the borough of Queens, who wanted to assure that our community’s parks, trees and natural areas are well cared for.
Friends is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non profit organization — a direct-action environmental group that employs volunteering in hands-on projects as a means of enhancing our neighborhood, and as an educational approach to promote a safer, friendlier and more environmentally sustainable quality of life. (REF from friend of Gantry home page)

Queens borough president Melinda Katz (+playlist)

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz was invited at the LIC Joint Town Hall Meeting. she talked about Education, funding for the Queens Borough library, She wants that every child of the future have a better education every year and they should get involved in Arts, She talks about also about the Problem that LIC is going through with the MTA service.

Gantry Plaza State Park View

Gantry Plaza State Park is a state park on the East River in the Hunter's Point section of Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens. The 10-acre (4.0 ha) park first opened in May 1998 and was expanded
in July 2009. The southern portion of the park is a former dock facility
and includes restored "contained apron" transfer bridges of the James
B. French patent, and 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 a former Pepsi bottling plant.^{[ref wikipedia)}

Gantry Park history

Gantry Plaza State Park is a state park on the East River in the Hunter's Point section of Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens.


The 10-acre (4.0 ha) park first opened in May 1998 and was expanded
in July 2009. The southern portion of the park is a former dock facility
and includes restored "contained apron" transfer bridges of the James
B. French patent, and 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 a former Pepsi bottling plant. ^{(ref. wikipedia}

Graffiti Mecca

5 Pointz: The Institute of Higher Burnin or the 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center, Inc. (45–46 Davis Street) was an American outdoor art exhibit space in Long Island City in Queens, New York, considered to be the world's premiere "graffiti mecca", where aerosol artists from around the globe painted colorful pieces on the walls of a 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m²) factory building. (ref.wikipedia)

Elinore Schnurr was commissioned by TF Cornerstone and is now permanently hanging in the lobby of 4540 Center Blvd in Long Island City.

 Elinore Schnurr works in a studio in Long Island City, Queens, New
York. Over the years she has exhibited widely. Her most recent solo show
was at the Alfred Van Loen Gallery in South Huntington, New York in
2012; in 2011 she was one of four artists representing the United States
in Nordart 2011 at Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Budelsdorf, Germany. She has
had solo exhibitions at the Atlanta Art Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia,
Capricorn Galleries in Bethesda, Maryland, and the DFN Gallery in New
York City, to name a few. She was the recipient of the Thomas B. Clarke
Award for figurative painting at the National Academy of Design (now,
National Academy Museum) in New York in 1986 and the Second Place Award
in the Midyear at the Butler Institute of American in 2002.


Her paintings are in museum collections including the Cleveland Museum
of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the
Museum of the City of New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts in St.
Petersburg, Florida, to name a few, and she has work in more than 50
corporate collections and hundreds of private collections in this
country and abroad. (ref.Bio page)

Hunter's point middle School (+playlist)

The Hunters Point Community Middle School was established in 2013, Hunters Point Community Middle School is a
school with an ecological focus and a hands-on approach. Principal
Sarah Goodman says that the school makes use of the nearby waterfront
and the surrounding community to provide hands-on learning opportunities
for students. Students make regular visits to the waterfront and
participate in activities such as water testing. Goodman, who studied
urban river education programs as an environmental studies student at
Brown University, incorporates the East River into the school’s
curriculum. Students work in small advisory groups to explore different
environmental, social, or arts-based themes.


The school is housed in a newly constructed building located at 1-50 51st Avenue that is part of the city's Hunters Point South Development. Hunters Point Community Middle School share the new building with the Academy for Careers in Television and Film
and the Riverview School, a 6-12 District 75 program. Situated near the
East River, the new building features science labs, an auditorium, and
music and art classrooms.  (reference text taken from the school website)

YMCA LIC

The story of New York City's YMCA parallels the story of our great City. Throughout
our 160-year history, the Y has played an important role in New York
City, anchored in its neighborhoods and continuously evolving to meet
the needs of the kids, families and adults who live there. Today, the Y
reaches half a million New Yorkers through programs that focus on youth
development, healthy living and social responsibility.





Please contact your local branch. For general association inquiries only, you may contact the Association Office reception desk at 212-630-9600

Long Island City YMCA - 32-23 Queens Blvd. - Long Island City, NY 11101 - (718) 392-7932

Winter concert, Hunter's point middle School in LIC (+playlist)

Elinore Schnurr, unveiling New commissioned art