Explore Staten Island’s St. George, from neighborhood favorites to unique curated events. Start with the best-known things to do, then check out "What's happening" for upcoming limited events in St. George.
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The orange Staten Island Ferry brings you from Lower Manhattan across the harbor to St. George Ferry Terminal. Looking back toward Manhattan is part of this arrival, with the water separating the skyline from the neighborhood you’re coming to explore.
Keepers Kate Walker and Charles Vanderhoop Sr. are among the people you meet through the permanent displays at the National Lighthouse Museum. Their individual stories appear in Life at the Light, which explores the lives of lighthouse keepers. The museum occupies the former US Lighthouse Service depot site, connecting those accounts to a place where lighthouse equipment was made or inspected.
Regional farmers and food producers gather at Saint George Greenmarket on Saturdays year-round, with the harbor and Lower Manhattan skyline as their backdrop. You can browse for bread, cheese and something sweet in the theatre parking lot at Saint Marks Place and Hyatt Street. This is a producer-only market, where the sellers grow the produce or make the food they bring.
Local authors and books about Staten Island share the shelves with vintage and collectible volumes at Every Thing Goes Book Cafe and Neighborhood Stage. A short continuation into adjoining Tompkinsville brings you to this used-book shop. Its collection fills three rooms, including a children’s corner and a third room devoted in part to cookbooks, art, photography and theatre books. That room also holds records and a listening station.
Dance educator Rosemary Cappozalo and her daughters helped save St. George Theatre from demolition in 2004. Back in St. George, you can attend concerts, comedy, films and family entertainment in the restored 1929 movie and vaudeville palace. The building’s original role explains the theatrical scale of the interior, where Spanish, Renaissance and Moorish Revival details surround the performance.
Find upcoming street fairs, performances and other unique events in St. George.
5 things worth doing in the next 7 days · Friday, October 16th – Thursday, October 22nd
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
 Proximity Exhibition | Fri, Oct 16 | Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Main Hall Gallery, Building CSt. George · Staten Island | Fridays & Saturdays 12pm-7pm; Sundays 11am-5pmStudents and seniors: $4. Opening reception October 16, 6pm-8pm: free. |
 Spooky Snug Harbor Tour | Fri, Oct 16 | Visitor Info Booth, intersection at Chapel Road and Gazebo RoadSt. George · Staten Island | 7:30pm-9pm, 9pm-10:30pmGeneral admission and student/senior tickets are $30. |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bike the Block 2026 – Staten Island | Sat, Oct 17 | Snug Harbor, Lot 1 (by the Red Barn, Tuscan Garden)St. George · Staten Island | 12pm-5pm |
| Proximity Exhibition | Sat, Oct 17 | Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Main Hall Gallery, Building CSt. George · Staten Island | Fridays & Saturdays 12pm-7pm; Sundays 11am-5pmStudents and seniors: $4. Opening reception October 16, 6pm-8pm: free. |
| Spooky Snug Harbor Tour | Sat, Oct 17 | Visitor Info Booth, intersection at Chapel Road and Gazebo RoadSt. George · Staten Island | 7:30pm-9pm, 9pm-10:30pmGeneral admission and student/senior tickets are $30. |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proximity Exhibition | Sun, Oct 18 | Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Main Hall Gallery, Building CSt. George · Staten Island | Fridays & Saturdays 12pm-7pm; Sundays 11am-5pmStudents and seniors: $4. Opening reception October 16, 6pm-8pm: free. |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comedy Show with Patrick | Mon, Oct 19 | Steiny's Pub, Saint GeorgeSt. George · Staten Island | Mondays 9pmPrice not listed |
No events listed for Tuesday, October 20 yet.
No events listed for Wednesday, October 21 yet.
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karaoke with Ray | Thu, Oct 22 | Steiny's Pub, Saint GeorgeSt. George · Staten Island | Thursdays 9pm–1amPrice not listed |
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Snug Harbor’s studio artists share distinct practices in an exhibition about how working near one another connects their work.
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Try ghost-hunting equipment during a guided nighttime walk exploring Snug Harbor’s darker history.
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Bike the Block combines bike rentals with learn-to-ride classes for kids and adults at a family-friendly open-streets event.
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A comedy show at Steiny's Pub.
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Sing karaoke with Ray at Steiny's Pub.
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This is the Staten Island end of the Staten Island Ferry, which the city runs between Staten Island and Lower Manhattan.
4.7★ from 9,488 Google reviews
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Snug Harbor is a culture park on Staten Island combining gardens, art and history on one site.
4.5★ from 4,421 Google reviews
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You go for a specific show in a restored Staten Island theatre, and the family-facing programming is the "Better on the Big Screen" movie series: sing-along screenings of the 1989 Little Mermaid and the 1992 Aladdin, each with a live sing-along host, and a meet-and-greet with Princess Ariel or Princess Jasmine in the lobby afterwards.
4.7★ from 1,607 Google reviews
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Twelve indoor and outdoor exhibits built for hands-on play, plus dance and art workshops, science sessions and story times running through the day.
4.6★ from 983 Google reviews
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You walk a classical Chinese garden built in Suzhou and assembled on site — eight pavilions, a bamboo-lined path, waterfalls, and ponds with fish to watch.
4.5★ from 892 Google reviews
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It's a self-guided walk through one small building — the 1912 foundry, 2,400 square feet — on the site of the old Lighthouse Service depot.
4.5★ from 489 Google reviews
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You ride the boat between the St.
4.6★ from 447 Google reviews
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Three exhibitions are on at once.
4.4★ from 354 Google reviews
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Three rooms of secondhand books on Bay Street with a children's book corner, plus a record room holding 33s, 45s, a few 78s and cassettes with a listening station you can use.
4.6★ from 317 Google reviews
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A family-run market and nursery on Richmond Terrace selling fruit and vegetables daily, plus farm eggs, dairy and local raw honey in several flavors.
4.6★ from 316 Google reviews
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A perfume retailer, family-run for many years, whose shelves cover designer labels alongside exclusive and difficult-to-source scents.
4.9★ from 236 Google reviews
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This is the ballpark of the Staten Island FerryHawks, a professional Atlantic League baseball team, sitting next to the Staten Island Ferry on Richmond Terrace.
4.6★ from 221 Google reviews
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A Greek Revival building from an earlier era, now used for events.
4.9★ from 189 Google reviews
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The museum is built around John A.
4.8★ from 150 Google reviews
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A branch of the public library system on Staten Island, with books to browse and borrow.
4.2★ from 116 Google reviews
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This is a small neighbourhood park — 2.06 acres — on the hill between Arnold Street, Clyde Place, Prospect Avenue and Harvard Avenue.
4.4★ from 116 Google reviews
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An indoor blacklight playground on the second level of Empire Outlets, a few steps from the Staten Island Ferry terminal.
4.8★ from 113 Google reviews
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A pottery studio running one-day beginner classes, multi-day courses and workshops, with no experience needed.
5★ from 110 Google reviews
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The park is built around a pond, and that's where you'll spend your time — people fish from the banks, and turtles and egrets sit around the water's edge.
4.6★ from 110 Google reviews
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A professional baseball club.
4.6★ from 101 Google reviews
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A thrift and vintage shop on Staten Island's North Shore, organised into sections you browse through: clothing, furniture, and a book cafe.
4.4★ from 86 Google reviews
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A Saturday farmers market in the theater parking lot at Saint Marks Place and Hyatt Streets, set on a hill looking out over New York Harbor and the downtown Manhattan skyline.
4.6★ from 85 Google reviews
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You walk in without booking, pick a ceramic piece from their inventory and paint it at your own pace, with staff giving instruction at the table as you go.
5★ from 65 Google reviews
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Hiking trails run through roughly 17 acres of natural area.
4.3★ from 62 Google reviews
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4.6★ from 60 Google reviews
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Art Lab is a non-profit art school on the grounds of Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, so a family visit is either a class, a camp or the gallery.
4★ from 14 Google reviews
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Near the ferry, you can choose Pier 76’s Italian menu or the weekend restaurant seatings at Nonnas of the World Community.
At Empire Outlets, these two stores cover sportswear and denim on the same shopping level.
The waterfront pairs a free harbor crossing with a memorial that faces the former World Trade Center site.
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