Long Island City waterfront just got a little greener in Hunters Point

That has got to be the ugliest water fountain I have ever seen. And do people still drink from public water fountains?

This isn’t open yet, is it? liQcity hopping fences to get the scoop!

Yes, on very hot days when you go out for a walk and are dying of thirst, or perhaps had a fruit smoothie explode all over them and need a little clean up – a water fountain is just what the doctor ordered. It’s a state park people.

“It’s a state park people.”

Why does it always feel like an amenity for the tower people, then?

“It’s all in your mind.”

Eh, maybe, but I always get this vibe of being in the towers’ front yard when I am over there, and everything is so shiny and perfect, just like the towers. And the people mostly seem to be well-off middle-agers. Not the same vibe you get at Murray Playground or even McCarren Park or Prospect Park.

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“everything is so shiny and perfect, just like the towers”

If you don’t like it, then there’s a perfect nearby park for you. It’s under the 59th street bridge across from the housing projects.

I’m a regular folk and don’t live in the towers and LOVE the whole Gantry waterfront, and I use it a lot. And I’m not well off middle aged either (OK maybe getting there). #10, how sad to live somewhere you don’t feel at home in. Not being sarcastic either, but maybe it’s better for you to find someplace to live that makes you happy. I’m sure there are comparable prices in Willaimsburg or Greenpoint…

Is the new extended part of Gantry Park now open? Anyone?

including liqcity!

It would be great if Dutch Kills and the new extension of Gantry Park opened the same week.

23, and yuppies are rats with khakis.

There’s that overused term “yuppie” again…

I’m by definition a yuppie (young urban professional, for people who use the term and don’t know what it actually means) and I don’t wear khakis.

Maybe they are bobos now? And they are rats who eat Whole Foods?

Canada Geese

does anyone know when dutch kills open? i need to spend these $15 that have been in my pocket along with the 3 pennies a ball of lint.

Speaking of the park…any news on the dead body they pulled out there a couple weeks ago?

Yeah, what happened with the dead body? How wasn’t that in the press?

I could do without all that Canadian geese poop, but I guess it fertilizes that grass.

There’s a lot more green in the park than I expected. Nice to have that much more grassy space…

Yeah, next they are going to complain about the area being too safe

OK, I go there all the time and those ducks/geese crap everywhere. There is Duck S*@# everywhere and that was when there were far fewer ducks. I’m looking at that picture of the lawn thinking, that’s one lawn I would NOT want to walk on!

I know, maybe we should shoot the ducks, then you don’t have to ruin your precious shoes when you step in their crap. Damn birds getting in the way of our urban living.

Canada geese are pests as much as pigeons. Why are you all romanticizing them?

i don’t think anyone is romanticizing them, but we do have to share the world with animals too…I know that is really hard to believe living in the city, but have some compassion for them at least. It is a park after all.