New York Harbor Parks
Phone: public information 718-354-4551
Many people are surprised when they discover that there are national parks in and around New York City and northern New Jersey. The National Parks of New York Harbor represents a collaboration, or organizational network, of these parks: Gateway National Recreation Area, Governors Island, Manhattan Sites and Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island, as well as one affiliated site, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.
These remarkable places include Jamaica Bay, the largest continuous piece of open space in all of New York City and icons such as the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, recognized the world over. The parks also include the cradle of our nation at Federal Hall on Wall Street, places in Manhattan where Presidents have lived and breathed and been interred and memorialized, and Governors Island, the newest national park on New York Harbor.
Your parks are historical and natural treasures: symbols of our American identity, places offering unique educational and recreational opportunities, and precious habitat for native plants and wildlife.
The National Parks of New York Harbor areas cover approximately 27,000 acres and are visited more than 20 million times each year.
Parks by Location
Statue of Liberty National Monument
Ellis Island National Monument
Governors Island National Monument
Castle Williams
Fort Jay
Manhattan Sites
Castle Clinton National Monument
Federal Hall National Memorial
General Grant National Memorial
Hamilton Grange National Memorial
Saint Paul?s Church National Historic Site
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Lower East Side Tenement Museum National Historic Site
an affiliated National Park Service area
Gateway National Recreation Area
Sites of particular note are listed under each unit
Jamaica Bay Unit
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Breezy Point
Canarsie Pier
Frank Charles Memorial Park
Jacob Riis Park
Fort Tilden
Floyd Bennett Field
Plumb Beach
Staten Island Unit
Great Kills
Fort Wadsworth
World War Veterans Park at Miller Field
Swinburne & Hoffman Islands
Sandy Hook Unit
Sandy Hook Beaches
Fort Hancock
Sandy Hook Lighthouse
Holly Forest
More info at http://www.nps.gov/npnh
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