Alice Austen House Birding and Museum Tour (5/18)

Join NYC Audubon at LGBTQ+ historical monument Alice Austen House! Right on Staten Island's eastern coast, Alice Austen Park provides a beautiful view of The Narrows, where may also find different species of wading birds. Spend the first hour birding with NYC Audubon's Seth Wollney on the museum grounds, which will then be followed by a guided tour of the Alice Austen House Museum. 

This is a paid event. Register here. 

Accessibility and Directions:

This park has a mix of paved and unpaved paths on fairly flat terrain. The Alice Austen House museum is wheelchair accessible and contains a restroom. There is a small gravel parking lot behind the museum, accessible from Hylan Boulevard. Street parking is generally available along Edgewater Street at the corner of the museum. Otherwise, the site is accessible by the S78 bus. For more information about the Alice Austen House and Park, you can visit the museum's website as well as NYC Parks' website.

Photo: A Snowy Egret creeps in shallow water. Credit: Newton Hightower