Astoria Park

Another gem in NYC. A great walk from end to end. So many scenic views you forget where you are. Astoria park follows the East River and has stunning views of multiple bridges as well as an Amtrak bridge and Randall's Island. There's wide open bike lanes that allow safe walking/running for pedestrians as well. There's a soccer field surrounded by a running rack, tennis courts, basketball courts with 2 full court runs and a few half court set ups, a swimming pool (still closed for the season), a playground, a skate park and im probably missing more. There are also several smaller parks in the area to suit every park goer's needs(for example, this park doesn't have handball courts but multiple in the area do). There's plenty of picnic space though I surprisingly didn't see anyone cooking out.
There's a decent parking lot which we easily found parking on a sunny 80 degree Sunday afternoon. My only complaint, I didn't see any concession stands or store fronts in the park. Though there are several deli's in the area. I like having options to buy water or Granola bars if I forget them.
Overall a must visit NYC Park. Simply for the views. Will be returning despite having to pay tolls from the Bronx.

Once (last year) visited in fall 🍁. Seemed like a very nice & quiet place to hangout and walk around the park, with all the fallen leaves, which looks beautiful. Visited the NE side of the park, next to the Hell Gate Bridge (beautiful rail road bridge, very very similar looking to the Sydney's Harbor bridge).
It's a big sized park & this time, in spring 🌼 visited the opposite side (SW corner, under the RFK bridge, also a beautiful looking bridge). Basically came to Astoria Park Carnival and I must said the experience was not so good because of few reasons (mentioned in a separate review of Astoria Park Parking lot/Astoria Park Carnival).
Overall it's a decent park to visit on normal, quiet days.

Fun family activities to do! We had so much fun until I heard people saying run! Shooting! We ran like never before! Luckily no one was injured! So you can take this into consideration before going. Wish someone should've warn me before! I hope in the future they put measures in place for security check before entering! It was really scary!

We come to this park pretty often after work hours to catch sunset and just go for a stroll around the park with our dog 🐾. You can see the gorgeous view of the Manhattan skyline. The park is big and there are many things to do around; tennis court, dog park, running track etc and lots of benches to just sit and relax between a long walk. We really do enjoy coming to this park.

Having variety of activity: free outdoor swimming pool, tennis court, basketball, running track, etc
Very crowd in peak hour
Beautiful view on the river side to Manhattans