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. The most prominent feature of the park is a collection of gantries with car float transfer bridges, which in turn were served by barges that carried freight railcars between Queens and Manhattan.
4-09 47th Rd, Long Island City, NY 11101 · Official site ↗
Opened June 6, 1998 on former Long Island Rail Road float bridges from the 1920s, the Long Island City park preserved two towering steel transfer gantries that once hoisted rail cars onto East River barges until 1957.
Reach it via the 7 train to Vernon Blvd-Jackson Ave or the NYC Ferry's Hunters Point South stop, and the pier decking gives way to lawn areas dotted with movable Adirondack chairs facing the Manhattan skyline.