Gantry Plaza State Park

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 convert|2.5|acre|m2|sing=on park is a former dock facility and includes restored gantry cranes used from the middle 19th to middle 20th century to load and unload rail car floats and barges serving local industry and the Long Island Rail Road. See Long Island City (LIRR station)

The park offers picnic tables, a playground, a fishing pier and playing fields with a view of United Nations Headquarters and the midtown Manhattan skyline.

The film "Munich" took advantage of this view in its final scene, shot in 2005. The pier and the Pepsi-Cola sign to its north are visible in this scene.

The same location was used in "The Interpreter" (starring Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman). It is the final scene where Nicole's character says goodbye to Sean Penn's character, who is sitting on a fence by Gantry Park. The Pepsi-Cola sign in a distribution center north of the park is visible in the scene as well.

Gantry Plaza State Park was designed by Thomas Balsley Associates, a New York City landscape architecture firm.

See also

*List of New York state parks

External links

* [http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=86 Gantry Plaza State Park]
* [http://www.citynoise.org/article/7357 Pictures of Gantry Plaza State Park {citynoise.org)]
* [http://www.queenswest.com/gantrypark/pictures/ Pictures of Gantry Park on QueensWest.com]
* [http://www.guiaturisticanuevayork.com/queens_pictures.php Pictures of Gantry Park (guiaturisticanuevayork.com)]