Saturday is the third and last day for Summer Streets – and the last chance this year for New Yorkers to cycle – carfree – from East 72^nd Street to the Brooklyn Bridge, from 7 am to 1 pm. Park Avenue will be closed to traffic; then Lafayette Street picks up the action from Union Square on.

It’s a great way to enjoy all that Our Fair City offers on a sleepy August weekend – but better still, it’s a great way to travel from uptown to our offshore islands, where there’s plenty of art on view. The Summer Streets tour ends literally at the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge path, so it takes a few quick maneuvers to cross Park Row (2 times) and pick up Front Street going east, to South Street, and on the ferry terminals.

The Comanding Officer's House, where Governors Island: Photographs by Lisa Kereszi & Andrew Moore is currently on view. Photos: Peggy Roalf.

Ferry service to Governors Island runs every half hour and once there, you can cycle around the 5.5-mile perimeter and take in the retrospective exhibition of sculpture by Mark di Suvero. But there’s more: On view at the Commanding Officer’s House, in Nolan Yard, is Governors Island: Photographs by Lisa Kereszi & Andrew Moore. The photographers were commissioned by the Public Art Fund to photograph the island and its structures after the Coast Guard ceased operations there and it was purchased by the City of New York. The photographs were exhibited at the Urban Center in 2004 and published in book form. The current iteration is installed in the recently repainted officer’s residence, which adds a wonderful layer of authenticity and a sense of place to the exhibition. Directions and ferry schedule. There’s an information desk up the hill from the ferry dock.

You could also hop the Staten Island Ferry and head to Sailors’ Snug Harbor, an 83-acre cultural mecca that covers a variety of ages in the arts through its exhibitions and botanical gardens. Currently on view at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art is Noise Carousel, which explores the notion of sound as sculptural form through 15 artists’ audio works, which are installed in a ring of listening stations on wheels that permit listeners to drift around the gallery while hearing the compositions. The featured artists are: Jill Auckenthaler, Karen Y. Chan, Paul Dickinson, Taylor Deupree and Christopher Willits, Draculatron, Nick Hallett, Jill Jichetti, Nina Katchadourian, Alison Knowles, Tara Mateik, Sarah Paul, Louie Rozier, John Thurber, Wu Tsang, Tamara Yadao. Information and Directions.