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Alice Austen House

The waterfront cottage where pioneering photographer Alice Austen lived and shot thousands of images of turn-of-the-century New York, most of them developed in a darkroom she built herself on-site. The lawn looks straight across the Narrows toward Brooklyn, and it's one of the quietest harbor views in the city.

Tags: museum, photography, staten island, waterfront

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