Little Red Lighthouse Festival
Saturday, September 26
12:00 – 4:00 pm
Celebrate Manhattan’s only remaining lighthouse with NYC Urban Park Ranger-led tours, readings of eponymous children’s book, fishing clinics, live music, food vendors, and activities for the whole family!
This fun and free event includes tours of the lighthouse with the NYC Urban Park Rangers, readings of the children’s book The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge, fishing clinics with I Fish NY & DEC, live musical entertainment from Big Apple Corps, a special presentation of a section of a new Little Red Lighthouse Opera, food vendors, and activities for the whole family!
Please note: Tickets for the lighthouse tours will be given out beginning at 12:00 p.m. Tickets may run out before the end of the event.
Entertainment lineup
- Big Apple Corps Marching Band
- Reading of The Little Red Lighthouse and The Great Grey Bridge
- Street Beat
- Little Red Lighthouse Opera selections
- 2nd Reading of The Little Red Lighthouse and The Great Grey Bridge
- Bill Popp and The Tapes
Event shuttle service schedule, as per the official page found here…
- 11:00am- Pick up passengers at West 168th Street and St. Nicholas Blvd. Train Station
- 11:30am- Arrive at Fort Washington Park/Little Red House under GW Bridge
- 12:00am- Return to West 168th Street and St. Nicholas Blvd. Train Station to pick up passengers
- 12:30pm- Drop off passengers at Fort Washington Park/Little Red House under GW Bridge
- 1:00pm- Return to West 168th Street and St. Nicholas Blvd. Train Station to pick up passengers
- 1:30pm- Drop off passengers at Fort Washington Park/Little Red House under GW Bridge
- 2:00pm- Return to West 168th Street and St. Nicholas Blvd. Train Station to pick up passengers
- 2:30pm- Drop off passengers at Fort Washington Park/Little Red House under GW Bridge
- 3:00pm- Pick up passengers at Fort Washington Park/Little Red House under GW Bridge
- 3:30pm- Drop off passengers at West 168th Street and St. Nicholas Blvd. Train Station
- 4:00pm- Pick up passengers at Fort Washington Park/Little Red House under GW Bridge
- 4:30pm- Drop off passengers at West 168th Street and St. Nicholas Blvd. Train Station
- 5:00pm- Pick up passengers at Fort Washington Park/Little Red House under GW Bridge
- 5:30pm- Drop off passengers at West 168th Street and St. Nicholas Blvd. Train Station