{"id":14961,"date":"2014-07-04T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=14961"},"modified":"2014-07-04T16:32:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:32:56","slug":"a-walk-along-a-deserted-hunters-point-south-park-long-island-city-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-walk-along-a-deserted-hunters-point-south-park-long-island-city-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"A walk along a deserted Hunter&#8217;s Point South Park, Long Island City, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-01.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park, Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new\u00a0Hunter&#8217;s Point South Park\u00a0can be found on\u00a0Long Island City, across the East River from Midtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-02.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park, Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Easily reached by the East River Ferry, the waterfront park is a recent addition to New York&#8217;s parks &#8211;\u00a0up until the\u00a0recently the land was an abandoned post-industrial area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-03.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park, Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We visited in December so the place was just about deserted, but there&#8217;s loads ot do here, with the park containing a central green, playground, dog run, bikeway, waterside promenade, basketball court, and a 13,000 square foot pavilion that contains comfort stations, concessions, and an elevated cafe plaza.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-04.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park, Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking across to Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-05.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park, Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were no takers for the sun loungers when we visited.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-06.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park,Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-07.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park,Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cocal Cola sign.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-09.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park,Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking southtowards Newtown Creek, which feeds into East Williamsburg and Bushwick.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-16.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park, Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-10.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park,Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been massive residential development in the area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-11.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park, Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pier with the top of the Empire State building in the middle of the frame.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-12.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park, Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Old dock equipment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-13.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park,Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Abandoned railway line.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-14.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park, Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-15.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park, Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-17.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park, Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-18.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter's Point South Park, Long Island City, New York, NY 11101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/parks\/HuntersPointSouthPark\">NYC Parks website<\/a>. Find the park on\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4b6d31;\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/79DEJ\" target=\"_blank\">Google Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new\u00a0Hunter&#8217;s Point South Park\u00a0can be found on\u00a0Long Island City, across the East River from Midtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,17,193],"tags":[734,912,913,1199,385],"class_list":["post-14961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-photos","category-places","tag-east-river","tag-hunters-point-south-park","tag-long-island-city","tag-new-york","tag-nyc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hunters-point-long-island-city-nyc-011.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-3Tj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14967,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions\/14967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}