The Long Island City Flea and Food market has opened. A nosher’s paradise. Not far from the “water” (the East River) and Gantry State Park. The place was jammed with unique and delicious stuff. This is just a small sample; I was too hungry to run around and photograph food, especially since the line for the squiggly potatoes and other strangely cut stuff was forty-five minutes long.

Read about it here and here.

More…on to the park, the East river, the breeze, the expensive new apartments we’ll never be able to afford. LIC may be the new Brooklyn which is the new Manhattan. Check out the iconic images:

• the United Nations building
• the Empire State Building
• the Chrysler Building
• Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village
• the old Pepsi Cola sign
• find the Freedom Tower

The area that is now so built up and modern was an old waterfront industrial area. The Pepsi sign is a landmark from the 1930’s. It was taken from atop of the building where Pepsi was bottled. Further up the river was the Silvercup bakery. That sign is preserved as well and sits atop a landmark building, the Silvercup Studios, which is now known for the production of television shows and cinema.

McDonald’s al fresco

Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village

The U.N.

panorama

panorama

red on red

facing south

benches

climbers

59th St. Bridge feelin’ groovy, looking north

Pepsi

Pepsi

Freedom Tower behind, looking south

59th Street Bridge foreground, Roosevelt Island background

Empire State Building, U.N. Chrysler Building

Gantry State Park got its name from the gantries that stand at the waterfront which helped the boats come close to the shore to load and unload their goods.

 The Gantries

Read more about the park here.