Kayaking activities in New York City
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Manhattan Kayak Company
Manhattan Kayak Company offers a huge array of waterborne options, suitable for first-timers or experts, from April to November. The five-hour ‘sushi’ trip leads to a Japanese-New Jersey community for sushi lunch ($100, not including food). Other offerings include 90-minute full-moon night tours ($65) and a tough full-day romp around Manhattan ($225). One-hour practice sessions are $35. Call for tour times.
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Downtown Boathouse
New York’s most active public boathouse offers free walk-up 20-minute kayaking (including equipment) in the protected embayment in the Hudson River on weekends and some weekday evenings. Longer rides (eg to Governor’s Island) usually go from the Midtown location at Clinton Cove; there’s another boathouse at Riverside Park on the Upper West Side.
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C
Long Island Community Boathouse
This boathouse regularly offers free walk-up kayaking, as well as other trips from its other boathouse at Anable Basin, including Friday Night ‘Chill Paddles’ and more adventurous (and demanding) Saturday paddles.
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Red Hook Boaters
This boathouse, located in the remote harborside neighborhood of Red Hook, offers free kayaking and canoeing out on the East River and in the Buttermilk Channel. Trips are available two or three times weekly from May to October.
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Hoboken Cove Boathouse
Just across the Hudson River, this nonprofit boathouse offers occasional free kayaking days from June to August at the waterfront shown as Marlon Brando’s turf in On the Waterfront.
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E
Friends of Brook Park
This Bronx community organization works hard at developing the Harlem River waterfront and hosts various events, including a Harlem River paddle in September.
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