Summer on the Hudson: Little Red Lighthouse Festival
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Saturday, September 26, 2015
12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
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 beginnning at 12:00 p.m. Tickets may run out before the end of the event.
Entertainment lineup
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
Check out Summer on the Hudson's Twitter feed here for more specific information about the event and weather updates.
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 beginnning at 12:00 p.m. Tickets may run out before the end of the event.
Entertainment lineup
- Lesbian & Gay 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
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
Check out Summer on the Hudson's Twitter feed here for more specific information about the event and weather updates.
Location
Little Red Lighthouse in Fort Washington Park 
West 181 Street and Plaza Lafayette
Manhattan
Entrance to the Little Red Lighthouse Festival and Fort Washington Park on foot is from 181st (walk West to the Hudson River then South to the lighthouse) or 158th (walk West on 158th to the Park and take the stairs or ramp down to the walkway, then walk North to the lighthouse).
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