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There are lots of places where there are state owned or national park
owned facilities which are run by private corporations. I think these
places have some kind of contract with the entity that owns the
property.

New York City and New York State, in the New York City region alone, have
several marinas operating out of the Department of Parks amd Recreation. They
are significantly cheaper than privately owned and operated marians in the
region. They have traditionally been run by contractors, which in some cases
meant running them into the ground. The contractor operating our marina,
World's Fair Marina in Flushing, Queens, was ousted a few years ago but he was
only the last of s string of unsatisfactory operators. That marina is now run
entirely by the City. But several others, notably the 79th Street Boat basin
and Bayside, are still contractor operated. There is another one on the East
River at 23rd Street but it is run by the Department of Marine and Aviation.
Seaplanes do operate out of it.