Staten Island’s top sight offers a tranquil sweep of gardens, heritage buildings and gallery spaces. Highlights include an ancient-style Chinese Scholar’s Garden, a Tuscan Garden modeled on Florence’s Villa Gamberaia, and the Noble Maritime Collection, graced with a fine collection of mainly 19th- and 20th-century maritime art spanning watercolors and oil paintings to lithographs and photography. Right beside the latter is the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, a showcase for changing exhibitions of modern art.
Snug Harbor is located 2 miles west of the Staten Island ferry terminal; catch bus S40, which stops by the main entrance.
