Water Taxi Beach -- LIC

Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City has been creating quite a stir lately. It's been getting write ups all over the place.

New York Magazine – Harry's LIC at Water Taxi Beach
New York Times – Water Taxi Beach
Gridskipper – Water Taxi Beach
New York City Diary – Water Taxi Bech
Daily News – Water Taxi Beach is ferry easy to reach

The beach, is an empty lot next to the Hunters Point water taxi stop. The owners, trucked in sand, set up a food stand (run by the same people who run shnack, in red hook), set up picnic tables and a beach vollyball net.

It's right on the bank of the east river. No swimming. (who in their right minds would want to?). It's just plain a great place to hang out. The crowd is twenty somethings to late thirty somethings. It's chill. There's a mix of singles, couples and young famlies with small children. The best deal is the 24oz can of Pabst Blue Ribbon, at $2. The food is only okay. But we go there for the atmosphere and one of the best views of the manhattan skyline we've ever seen. It just doesn't get any better than that.

Lately they've been staying open well past midnight (up till 3am) on weekends.