Join us on Gansevoort Peninsula and take a tour from our salt marsh to our tide pools during West Side Fest 2025!
West Side Fest is a celebration of arts and culture on the West Side of Manhattan. Enjoy artmaking, workshops, dancing, crafts and other special programming across participating organizations from the West Side Cultural Network (WSCN). See the 2025 schedule of events and experience the festival on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app.
Gansevoort Peninsula, which opened in 2023, is the largest stand-alone recreational space in Hudson River Park with its 5.5 acres of incredible public green space. From a sandy shoreline beach with tide pools to a pine grove, pile field and salt marsh, it is also one of the most fascinating sites to learn about local ecology. Shoreline Strolls tours meet at the southwestern corner of Gansevoort Peninsula near the sand bluff.
During Shoreline Strolls, you’ll have the chance to learn more about these fascinating ecosystems from our River Project team. Grab your binoculars and try to spot some of the shorebirds seen regularly dabbling in our salt marsh, or see if you can spot some of the resident hawks that use the light poles (and sometimes even on the inspiring Day’s End public art installation, which was donated to Hudson River Park by the Whitney Museum of American Art) as a perch to find their next meal.
About the West Side Cultural Network
The West Side Cultural Network (WSCN) is a group of museums, parks, performing arts centers, and cultural institutions along the West Side of Manhattan. WSCN aims to ensure New Yorkers and visitors alike know they have access to the myriad, dynamic cultural offerings along the Hudson River and the adjoining neighborhoods.
WSCN members include Center for Art, Research and Alliances; CUE Art; Dia Chelsea; Hill Art Foundation; the High Line; Hudson Guild; Hudson River Park; The Joyce Theater; The Kitchen; The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center; Little Island; NYC AIDS Memorial; Poster House; Print Center New York; Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art; The Shed; Westbeth; White Columns; Whitney Museum of American Art.
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