sailors' snug harbor

The Greek Revival building was a dormitory for retired sailors who lived out their last years here when the parcel was called Sailors’ Snug Harbor.

Sailors’ Snug Harbor was a community for retired seamen from the 19th to mid-20th centuries, but after falling into disuse and disrepair, the complex was acquired by New York City in the 1970s.

The island, the curators note, "served as a breadbasket for New York City; a pleasure ground of estates and sporting grounds, including cricket, tennis and fox hunting; a refuge for the needy at charitable institutions such as Sailors' Snug Harbor; a center for early industrial activity at Linoleumville and Factoryville; an international port with shipbuilding facilities; and a place people call home, from early suburbs to public housing developments."

On Sunday afternoon it will host a free reception for its exhibition “Treasures of Sailors’ Snug Harbor.”

One day they sailed on the Ferry to Staten Island to visit Sailors' Snug Harbor.