ShareThe National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy is a nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization founded in 2005 by Marian S. Heiskell, David Rockefeller Jr. and Marie Salerno. The mission of the Harbor Conservancy with the National Park Service is to preserve and protect the National Parks of New York Harbor for the people of the region and for visitors, both national and international. The Harbor Conservancy has embarked on an ambitious decade-long initiative focused on improving access, through a seamless waterborne transportation system and this interactive web portal; enlivening the park experience with an imaginative array of new programs; and restoring these national park treasures by supporting select capital projects.
The National Parks of New York Harbor, with nearly 27,000 acres, is the largest caretaker of shoreline—public or private—on the waterfront. Lower Manhattan is the epicenter of this network of harbor parks, historic sites and recreation areas that arc to three other boroughs of the city—Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island—and across to New Jersey. These national parks host over 20 million visitors annually.
