JERSEY CITY AND BEYOND – Tens of thousands of people are expected to get on the Hudson River on Saturday, July 20 for the sixth annual City of Water Day hosted by the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance.
Essentially a waterway festival on the Hudson River, City of Water Day will feature music, boating, food, and fun along the harbor. In Jersey City, the boating activities and fun will take place at Liberty State Park. Comparable events will be held in New York City on Governor’s Island as part of City of Water Day.
City of Water Day activities, which are all free, will include a cardboard kayak race, boat tours, rowing, kayaking and paddle-boarding; free science experiments and games food, music and giveaways.
In addition to the two primary sites at Liberty State Park and Governor’s Island, the Alliance will partner with other groups in New Jersey and New York that have their own ongoing waterway activities. This City of Water programming, known as In Your Neighborhood, will include activities at the Hoboken Boat House.
Last year, this event attracted about 25,000 participants, total, in New Jersey and New York.
All waterway activities are offered free of charge, although registration is strongly suggested.
Registrants may be asked to make a deposit when they sign up online for events. This deposit is returned if the registrants show up for their activity. The deposit is forfeited if registrants do not show up.
To see the full list of the day’s activities, or to register, please visit www.cityofwaterday.org.
The festivities take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine. – E. Assata Wright
Sixth annual ‘City of Water Day’ takes place in New York Harbor Saturday
