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BUY TICKETS
on the New York Waterway website or call 800-533-3779
DEPARTS
Battery Maritime Building (next to S.I. Ferry Terminal)
DAILY SCHEDULE
APR 4-MAY 31
11am, 12:30pm, 2pm JUN 1-SEP 30 10:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm Tour lasts 60 minutes
PRICE
Adults: $18
Seniors 62+: $16 Children 3-12: $14 Children under3: Free
April Special:
$5 OFF!
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Gateway Tour Highlights
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Boat Tour
Gateway to America
Narrated by actress Kathleen Turner, Gateway to America offers a rich and layered audio perspective on New York Harbor. The most comprehensive tour of its kind on the water, its sweeping narrative features the voices of National Park Service Rangers and renowned scholars and historians, who regale you with tales about the harbor's role in immigration, the birth of the nation, commerce and defense of the city. Sites on the tour include, the Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, South Street Seaport and Governors Island.
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The tour is the first in a series of Gateway to America Official Tours created by the National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy and the National Park Service. Gateway Tours begin downtown and on New York Harbor—the place that has shaped our heritage from the time of the first explorers, to successive waves of immigrants, shipmasters and pleasure-boaters propelling the city's growth into the nation's most populous and most vibrant.
CREDITS
Special funding for Gateway to America has been provided by Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation. Music on Gateway to America includes excerpts from Ellis Island: The Dream of America by Peter Boyer provided courtesy of Propulsive Music. Gateway to America was produced by the National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy. Gateway to America is an Antenna Audio Production.
