Bayside

10.38 acres (includes 2.8 acres of the southern portion of the Motiva site that will be developed as a part of this site)

Kent Ave, East River, North 12th Street, Bushwick Inlet

Status: Unfunded. Land acquired by New York City in 2016. As of 2021 the City has not allocated any money for the remediation, design or construction of this portion of the park.

History: Acquisition of this property from Bayside Fuel was completed in 2016. Historically, the site was home to Pratt’s Astral Oil Works, which was established by Charles A. Pratt in the 1860s and later became part of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company. The property served as a kerosene refinery and petroleum storage facility for Pratt and Standard Oil’s Mobil Oil. It continued to operate as a petroleum storage facility after it was sold by Standard Oil in the 1940s until about 2010 when Bayside Fuel ceased operations at the site. From 2001 to 2010 TransGas Energy Systems attempted to obtain approval for developing an 1100 megawatt power plant on this site. Though tremendous community resistance this application was denied by the NYS Siting Board. Bayside’s storage tanks were demolished in 2019. The small sliver of land along the south side of the inlet itself has always been under separate ownership. The City proposes to develop this strip of land along with the Bayside parcel.