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}