Meet a New Yorker for Parks
2012
When families move to Astoria, they often stay there.
It’s venerable place, where longtime residents sip coffee at cafes with neighbors, enjoy outdoor meals where they’re known by name, and the rattling of the elevated N and Q trains along 31st Street eventually just blends in with the surroundings. And of course, there's the neighborhood park – Astoria Park – where the views of Manhattan from the historic 1936 Astoria Pool are framed by the sweeping archways of the R.F.K. and Hell Gate bridges. It's unsurprising that so many have been here for so long.
“I moved here 20 years ago and I’m still new,” said Martha Lopez-Gilpn, the Co-Chair of the Astoria Park Alliance.
While she may feel like she has only just arrived, Lopez-Gilpin has already made an enormous impact on the neighborhood. In 2006, ...
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