NPS Photo "Read With a Ranger" program availableThe National Park Service Stewardship, Preservation and Youth Development Office has partnered with the New York Public Library (NYPL) - South Beach Branch to implement the NPS “Read With a Ranger” program to support children's literacy. About the National Parks of New York Harbor (NPNH): NPNH stretches from the Battery at the southern tip of Manhattan into Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island and beyond to New Jersey. NPNH includes 12 national parks with 22 natural, historic and recreational sites. These national parks preserve special places that tell the story of America and its greatest city, from the nation's early defenses to its first steps as a new democracy, from waves of immigrants to the rise of a commercial powerhouse. They include international icons and places of extraordinary beauty where you can experience our history and natural heritage on land and on water. 
NPS Photo Seniors: use your hidden superpower!Did you know that reading cursive writing is becoming a lost art? A National Park Service (NPS) ranger from the National Parks of New York Harbor will invite senior citizens at your facility to learn more about the Revolutionary War Pension Files project. These files are preserved by the National Archives and Records Administration. Our hope is to encourage some of them to volunteer as transcribers of Revolutionary War Pension Files, work that can be done online. These handwritten documents, written in script that can be hard to read at times, contain untold stories from Revolutionary War heroes and their families. We would like to share more of these inspiring stories during the United States' 250th anniversary in 2026.Interested? Please email us. 
NPS Photo Invite an NPS ranger to your school's Career DayTeachers in the NYC area: invite a National Park Service (NPS) park ranger to your school's Career Day. A uniformed NPS employee will engage and inspire young minds to think about possible future career opportunities in the agency. Have students learn about the 12 National Park sites in the New York Harbor and New Jersey area, their own backyard, and experience their America. (We may or may not be able to have U.S. Park Police, on or off horseback, to accompany us, as seen here.)To invitate an NPS employee to your school's Career Day, please contact Community Engagement liaison Dorcas Meyers. |
Last updated: June 3, 2025