More than 7,500 Prints and Negatives by Trailblazing Photographer Alice Austen Return Home
With its panoramic views of New York Harbor, the house that trailblazing photographer Alice Austen (1866-1952) called home for most of her life, is a sprawling, two-story, elegant Victorian Gothic waterfront property known as Clear Comfort. Situated on the Staten Island shoreline near the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, she would have witnessed the monumental assembly of…