Snug Harbor

Park · Staten Island

Snug Harbor is an 83-acre campus off Richmond Terrace on Staten Island's North Shore, run as the Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden.

  • 0.14 square miles
  • 6 street corners
  • 2 bus routes

It began as Sailors' Snug Harbor, a home for retired seamen funded by the will of Captain Robert Richard Randall, who died in 1801, and its first building opened in 1833. Its Greek Revival halls were among the city's first 20 landmarks, designated in 1965, and since 1976 the grounds have held museums and gardens, including the Staten Island Museum, the Staten Island Children's Museum, the Noble Maritime Collection and the New York Chinese Scholar's Garden.

Sources: Our Story (Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden); Sailors' Snug Harbor (New York Preservation Archive Project); Sailors' Snug Harbor (Wikipedia).

Map

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Snug Harbor borders two areas, and Chapel Road holds more of its corners than any other street, four of 6.

Street map of Snug Harbor, Staten Island, outlined among West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill and St. George-New Brighton, with its paths and the streets around it.St. George-New BrightonWest New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill
  • Snug Harbor
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on two routes stop in or at the edge of Snug Harbor.

  • 2 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • S40
  • S44

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported zero crashes at all 6 of its corners.

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
78.5 acres of Snug Harbor Cultural Center, as NYC Parks maps it within Snug Harbor
Designated landmarks
The Administration Building (Building "C"); the Sailors' Snug Harbor, Building B; the Sailors' Snug Harbor Chapel (now Veterans Memorial Hall); and the Sailors' Snug Harbor, Building D, among others

Streets and trees

Trees
1,351 in NYC Parks' records, most often Norway maple, apple and black cherry
Street with the most corners
Chapel Road, with four of the area's 6
Height above sea level
From 11 feet at Cottage Row & Snug Harbor Road to 43 feet at Chapel Road & Melville Road

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works in Snug Harbor: Robert Richard Randall (1884), Icon II (1980) and Neptune Fountain.

  • 3 works of public art

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.