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The Ferry Point golf course will sit on a former landfill.
Grinda was a major stop on the nautical route, first mentioned in 1777 for its seafarers' inn – whose ruins still lie by the ferry point.
When construction of the Ferry Point golf course started two summers ago, it was the culmination of nearly 15 years of civic dreaming.
Under the Ferry Point proposal, the company, known as Trump Golf, would pay $10 million to build a clubhouse and would pay no licensing fees the first four years of the 20-year deal.
The ferry point at the foot of Broadway made that street the de facto main avenue, and within a few decades a dozen banks and insurance companies had built headquarters along the gentle slope up from the river.
The Lightstone Group, a company based in New York that has developed and managed outlet malls in Washington Orlandoo, Fla.; and San Antonio, bought a 19.2-acre property at 2505 Bruckner Boulevard in the Ferry Point neighborhood for $30 million in May, according to city records.
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It is on the East River near the ferry stop in Hunters Point, Queens.
The city granted the developer, Ferry Point Partners, a 35-year lease in exchange for financing the $22 million project.
The State Department of Environmental Conservation is expected to decide within the next few months whether the developer, Ferry Point Partners, can bring in the additional landfill, although it has not set a date for the ruling.
The payout to reimburse the developer, Ferry Point Partners, for its costs brings the total of city money spent on the unfinished golf course in the Throgs Neck neighborhood to $15 million, said the city comptroller, William C. Thompson Jr.
The developer, Ferry Point Partners, agreed to pave Miles Avenue, an unpaved road in the park, so it could be used by bicycles.
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