Park Life on the Water's Edge
Hunters Point occupies the tip of Long Island City closest to the Queensboro Bridge, where rail yards and factory buildings have given way over the past two decades to residential towers built around Gantry Plaza State Park and, further south, Hunters Point South Park. The waterfront esplanade running between them has become the neighborhood's real gathering place — strollers in the morning, running paths in the evening, a straight sightline across the East River to the Manhattan skyline that never quite stops feeling remarkable. It is a neighborhood defined as much by its park system as by any street or avenue.
The families who have settled into Hunters Point's newer towers, many with young children drawn by the waterfront parks, keep BonVivant busy with the gifts that come with that stage of life — a baby basket for a couple in their first Hunters Point apartment, a housewarming gift timed to a move that came with a park view, a birthday gift for a child who has grown up walking the esplanade. The neighborhood's compactness means most deliveries land within a few blocks of the water.
