East River State Park was officially renamed on Monday becoming New York’s first state park to be named after an LGBTQ person.
Now named after the famous Stonewall Riots activist, Marsha P. Johnson State Park will see a number of improvements in the coming year including a 1,200 square-foot education center, art installations, resurfacing of the concrete slabs where picnic benches are stationed along with infrastructure improvements throughout the 11-acre green space.
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