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July 12, City of Water Day at Randall’s Island Park!

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Come join us as a fellow volunteer on July 12 as we provide free paddling in a little piece of Heaven called Little Hell Gate Salt Marsh! There will be Natural Areas environmental educators and even a pickling demonstration and giveaway with the Urban Farm!

This program will be done in partnership with Randall’s Island Park Alliance as part of the 2025 City of Water Day celebration. As some of you know, this is a special event for us, given that our volunteers initiated the annual festival in 2007 as the Five Borough Harbor Ramble before happily handing it over to Waterfront Alliance for growth and longevity. The 2025 City of Water Day theme is “Unity in the Face of Climate Change.” We’ll be teamed up with NYC Parks’ and RIPA’s environmental educators and students to add value to our work. 

You don’t have to be a paddler to help! 

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP

WHEN:

JULY 12, 2025, 9am set up.

WHERE:

10 Central Rd, New York, NY 10035 (nearest address)
40.791812531874456, -73.92689503211459

Join the Cardboard Kayak Race!

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Calling all educators, campers, and community groups to join us and the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance on July 12 for the 2014 Cardboard Kayak Race! Everyone comes by boat to Governors Island for City of Water Day, but only the most creative and humorous mariners make their own zany boats right at the festival. Let your team of kids be among them!

HarborLAB will be providing public paddling programs at City of Water Day and safety support for the cardboard kayak race, as we did last year. We would be happy to help teams of junior high, high school, and college students practice their paddling in the weeks before competing in this unique design-build-paddle event! We and the MWA can also connect you with swim instruction organizations.

For information and registration, please click HERE. To partner with HarborLAB, email edu@harborlab.org.

 

 

 

Clearwater Festival and City of Water Day!

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Wonderful news! Thanks to our volunteers’ fantastic service last year, the two largest annual water ecology festivals in the metropolitan area have asked HarborLAB back to provide their public programs in 2014! Join us in Croton Point State Park in the Hudson River Valley for the Clearwater Festival on June 21 and June 22 and on Governors Island in the center of our harbor for City of Water Day on July 12!

2014 Calendar Filling Up!

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January isn’t quite over and already HarborLAB’s 2014 season is filling up! We’re having trouble with our Google Calendar, so please keep on top of opportunities to volunteer and paddle through our Facebook events page:

https://www.facebook.com/HarborLAB/events

Students and environmental volunteers have priority seating on our public trips, but we arrange special events too. Please let us know how and when we might help your service organization extend its mission onto the water, or let’s brainstorm together! 

On many days HarborLAB will organize “Partner Paddles,” which are special events for schools, universities, researchers and artists, environmentalists, and other service groups. For example, in 2013 we had special events for the Hunter’s Point Community Middle School, CUNY Baruch College, CUNY LaGuardia Community College, Hour Children, Billion Oyster Project, NYC DEP and its upstate watershed exhibitors, and others serving the common good. To avoid confusion, these events won’t be posted on our public calendars and event lists, but we’ll post photo galleries and trip reports afterward.

HarborLAB must also devote considerable attention to improving its waterfront space and launch, and conducting environmental science research there. Energetic volunteer recruitment and fundraising for boats and materials will increase our ability to produce simultaneous programs. Exciting times ahead!

Here are a few events to get you dreaming of summer!