Extending through NYC and New Jersey, recreational opportunities abound at Gateway National Recreation Area –swimming, fishing, biking, boating, and more! With 27,000 acres of green spaces, beaches, historic structures, and cultural landscapes to explore, there’s something for everyone. Just a bus, train, car, or ferry ride away from the city, you can visit NYC’s first municipal airport, tour the nation’s oldest operating lighthouse in Sandy Hook, or just enjoy a day at the beach.

Elizabeth Alice Austen was one of America's earliest and most prolific female photographers. Her early body of work, which chronicles Staten Island, New York City, and several other locations and is considered among the finest produced in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She lived most of her life in her maternal grandparents' home, "Clear Comfort,” which is now a National Historic Landmark, located just six blocks north of Gateway Recreation Area.