Gantry Park
There is also an adjacent outdoor garden with more Noguchi
sculptures.
The museum is located across the street from where Noguchi
worked and lived during the 1960s and 1970s. He bought a
photogravure plant and gas station in 1974 and converted them
into his museum.
Inside scoop: Noguchi is free on the first Friday of most months.
Address: 9-01 33rd Road, Long Island City,
www.noguchi.org.
PUBLIC GREEN SPACES
Astoria Park offers shoreline access to the East River, views of
Manhattan and Randall’s Island, an outdoor pool, and multiple
recreational activities, lying below two bridges, the Robert F.
Kennedy (formerly Triborough) and Hell Gate. Located at the
western end of Ditmars Boulevard and covering about 60 acres,
the public space has running tracks, dog runs, skate parks, tennis
courts, a track, basketball courts, a bandstand, and many trails. A
high-quality ultimate Frisbee game takes place there on Saturday
mornings all year.
Address: Bounded by Shore Boulevard, Ditmars Boulevard, 19th
Street, 21st Street and Hoyt Avenue, Astoria.
Gantry Plaza State Park covers 12 acres of shoreline on the
borough’s Western coast. With the East River and Midtown
Manhattan to the immediate west, the park contains playing
fields, fishing piers, a promenade, and outdoor furniture in a site
that was once a dock facility with gantry cranes. A 120-footlong
and 60-foot-high neon Pepsi-Cola sign adds to the mystical,
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