Everything on at Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden this weekend and in the weeks ahead — hand-checked, free events first.
14 picks · checked Aug 12
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsDaniel Rothbart's vessels float on the water at Snug Harbor in a free sculptural installation about climate, memory and the future.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsDaniel Rothbart's vessels float on the water at Snug Harbor in a free sculptural installation about climate, memory and the future.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA free outdoor Photoville installation at Snug Harbor honouring the jazz musicians who made Staten Island a quiet capital of the music.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA free outdoor Photoville installation at Snug Harbor honouring the jazz musicians who made Staten Island a quiet capital of the music.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsStaten Island artisans set up along Snug Harbor's Cottage Row with food and live entertainment at this free open-air market.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsStaten Island artisans set up along Snug Harbor's Cottage Row with food and live entertainment at this free open-air market.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsDario Mohr's public sculpture at Snug Harbor draws on Rwandan acacia forms to make a piece about unity, resilience and heritage.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsDario Mohr's public sculpture at Snug Harbor draws on Rwandan acacia forms to make a piece about unity, resilience and heritage.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA guided walk through Snug Harbor's pollinator plantings at the season's peak, when the bees and butterflies are still working.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA guided walk through Snug Harbor's pollinator plantings at the season's peak, when the bees and butterflies are still working.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA guided walk through the specimen trees of an 83-acre Staten Island campus planted over nearly two centuries of horticulture.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA guided walk through the specimen trees of an 83-acre Staten Island campus planted over nearly two centuries of horticulture.
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Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA guided look inside Snug Harbor's working glass house, where the botanical garden's tropical and tender collections are grown on.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA guided look inside Snug Harbor's working glass house, where the botanical garden's tropical and tender collections are grown on.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe story of the merchant seamen who retired to this 83-acre Staten Island campus, told on the ground where they lived.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe story of the merchant seamen who retired to this 83-acre Staten Island campus, told on the ground where they lived.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandWalk the finest run of original Greek Revival buildings in the country, six of them among the first 40 landmarks New York City ever designated.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandWalk the finest run of original Greek Revival buildings in the country, six of them among the first 40 landmarks New York City ever designated.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandLine up on the Cottage B porch at Snug Harbor for free vouchers to Daniel Sullivan's The Winter's Tale at the rebuilt Delacorte.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandLine up on the Cottage B porch at Snug Harbor for free vouchers to Daniel Sullivan's The Winter's Tale at the rebuilt Delacorte.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandBrian Dewan sings maritime ballads beside Daniel Rothbart's floating sculptures on Snug Harbor's pond — forty minutes, outdoors, registration required.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandBrian Dewan sings maritime ballads beside Daniel Rothbart's floating sculptures on Snug Harbor's pond — forty minutes, outdoors, registration required.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTrombonist Craig Harris plays a live set on Snug Harbor's South Meadow before an outdoor screening of the Oscar-nominated Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTrombonist Craig Harris plays a live set on Snug Harbor's South Meadow before an outdoor screening of the Oscar-nominated Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA 54-piece orchestra plays Bernstein, Sousa and the 1812 Overture on Snug Harbor's South Meadow for the group's 28th anniversary.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandAude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA 54-piece orchestra plays Bernstein, Sousa and the 1812 Overture on Snug Harbor's South Meadow for the group's 28th anniversary.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandA guided two-hour shinrin-yoku walk from Snug Harbor's Tuscan Garden into the woods and Healing Garden on the campus south side.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston, Staten IslandA guided two-hour shinrin-yoku walk from Snug Harbor's Tuscan Garden into the woods and Healing Garden on the campus south side.
This list covers the weekend of Aug 15–16, 2026, and it refreshes automatically every week.
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