An estimated 3,000 people turned up at Hunters Point South Park in Long Island City On Monday, April 18, the eve of the 2016 New York democratic primary for a Bernie Sanders rally. Sanders, the presidential hopeful, made his case about income equality in the hope of garnishing more New York City votes.

Hunters Point South will be the location of the start and finish lines for the inaugural 2016 “Run The Waterfront 5K” in Long Island City, New York. The 5 km event which is scheduled to take place on Saturday 4th June 2016 is expected to attract more than 1000 runners and walkers from all over New York.

The much anticipated expansion of Citi Bike into areas of the city previously not served by the bike-sharing scheme will kick off tomorrow with Hunter’s Point South being the first station to launch its Citi Bike docking station. According to the LIC Post the Department of Transportation is cutting the ribbon on the first Long Island City station, which is also the first in the borough of Queens.

Citibike has announced that it will be coming soon to Hunters Point including Hunter’s Point South as part of its expansion into the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens. The expansion, announced earlier today by New York mayor Bill de Blasio, Department of Transportation Commissioner, Polly Trottenberg and Motivate CEO Jay Walder, will include the establishment of 12 new stations in Queens by the end of 2015.

First pitched several years ago by a group of friends, the idea of a floating pool in the midst of the heavily polluted New York City waterways is moving closer towards becoming a reality for New Yorkers. Thanks to the team behind +POOL and the success of two Kickstarter campaigns, the development of the world’s first water-filtering, floating pool has just reached the next step and Hunter’s point South is on the list of locations under consideration to become its future home.

What is now considered by many to be one of the most beautiful parks in New York City, is about to become even more beautiful as the City prepares to begin work on an amazing $100 million expansion of the waterfront wonder.