Snug Harbor was founded through a bequest after the death of Revolutionary War soldier and ship master Captain Robert Richard Randall, namesake of the nearby neighborhood of Randall Manor. Randall left his country estate in Manhattan, bounded by Fifth Avenue, Broadway, 10th Street, and the southern side of 8th Street adjacent to what is now Washington Square, to build an institution to care for "aged, decrepit and worn-out" seamen. Now, it's been re purposed into Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden which includes the Chinese Scholar Garden. http://snug-harbor.org/ It's a short ride 10 to 15 miles, maybe, to a long time ago to a place where one person cared for people he never knew. Rodney Millard, Jesse Brown & Ed DeFreitas