The Long Island City waterfront: the two iron transfer gantries, the piers reaching into the East River, the great neon sign, the whole Midtown skyline across the water at night.
Gantry Plaza State Park opened in 1998 on the East River in Long Island City, Queens. Its two iron gantries, built in 1925, once lifted railcars onto barges bound for Manhattan. The Pepsi-Cola sign came from the bottling plant that stood nearby from 1936; it was moved to the park in 2009 and became a city landmark in 2016. The piers face Midtown across the water.
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The pair of black riveted gantry frames with their lettering, four long piers with benches and lounge chairs, the red neon bottle sign on its frame, the towers of Midtown mirrored in the river. Mood: neon on the water. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.