Family Rowing Festival @ the Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse
On September 8th from 11am to 2pm, Row New York will provide boathouse tours and free rowing activities to community members from the neighborhoods surrounding the Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse on the Harlem River in Upper Manhattan. Guests at the event will include Olympic athletes and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. The Sharp Boathouse is [...]
After Rumble on the Harlem River, a New Crew Takes Over the Sharp Boathouse | NY Times
By ROBIN FINN AMANDA KRAUS stood in her favorite spot on the second-floor deck of the Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse, which floats in a cove on the Harlem River where Dyckman Street meets the Harlem River Drive. She watched as a pair of $45,000 shells, each propelled by a gaggle of high school students, eight [...]
Exploring the Harlem River’s Little-Known Swindler Cove Park | Camera Obscura – Curbed NY
By Nathan Kensinger Swindler Cove Park is one of Manhattan’s least known yet most beautiful parks. Opened in 2003, the park occupies a five acre patch of land along the Harlem River that was once used as a communal dumping ground. Before construction on the park could begin, workers reportedly “removed tons of garbage, rusted-out cars, sunken boats [...]
Students Tap Power of Rowing on the Harlem River | NYTimes.com
BY Corey Kilgannon “I’M bored,” announced Shlomo Orenstein, 14, a seventh grader from Brooklyn, as he lay on a floating dock on the Harlem River on Thursday, picking splinters out of the wooden planks with his idle hands. Moments later, his mood had changed considerably. He was seated in a sleek racing scull, those same [...]
ROW, ROW, ROW, UPTOWN…
By DeJesus: OK.. so you can run and cycle your way to and from uptown, we are the beginning and end of the Greenway! You can explore the only remaining natural forest in Manhattan. You can even stand on the highest point above sea level in Manhattan. But did you know that you can also [...]
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