Schedule of events for “City of Water Day at the Hoboken Cove”

A free family waterfront festival
Saturday, July 14, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Maxwell Place Park, Sinatra Drive North near 11th Street

Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse: Kayaking & paddleboarding 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Main Tent on Sinatra Drive North at foot of 11th Street, Hoboken
BioBlitz/Trash Free Seas/Water Quality Testing Workshops beginning every hour on the hour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (sign up via
EventBrite)

• 10 a.m. Noelle Thurlow: Stewardship of the Hudson River & the Hoboken Cove
• 11 a.m. Laura from Little City Books: Storytime for eco-minded young readers
• 12 p.m Michael Sardinas of the Hudson River Fisherman’s Association
• 2 p.m. Zach Schwitzky: Commuting to NYC via kayak
• 1:30 & 2:30 The Fuzzy Lemons: write a song about the Hudson River and dance along with Hoboken’s favorite family-friendly rock’n’rollers

Also under the Main Tent, boost your local environmental stewardship: visit the Fund for a Better Waterfront, the Hoboken Green Team, Rebuild by Design, Hoboken Residents for a Public Waterfront and Climate Mobilization Hoboken to learn how you can protect the Hudson River and our very own Hoboken Cove.

The Hoboken Cove, a protected area bounded by Castle Point at the south and by the earthen peninsula at Maxwell Place Park at the north, is the only natural sandy beach along the Hudson River south of the George Washington Bridge. Each year thousands of people enjoy the cove for kayaking, paddle boarding, fishing and other water-related activities.

The Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse, established in 2004, sponsors free kayaking on summer weekends, and hosts the popular Hudson River Cup and Polynesian Ohana Festival. People will have an opportunity to get into the water this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. as part of the City of Water Day activities celebrating the Hoboken Cove.

Naturalist Noelle Thurlow of Resilience Paddle Sports and her team of environmental educators will lead three Hudson River stewardship programs each hour on the hour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., convening at the Main Tent: a BioBlitz, Trash Free Seas and Water Quality Testing. Each mini-workshop will last about 30 minutes. A BioBlitz is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. Trash Free Seas will document trash that has washed up along the shore, helping to educate people to be better stewards of our waterways. The third workshop will teach people about the water quality of the Hudson River. Sign up for these workshops via EventBrite

The environmental movement to protect our rivers began in 1966 along the Hudson River when the Hudson River Fishermen’s Association was formed. At noon Michael Sardinas will talk about the history of this group that continues to monitor and safeguard the Hudson River and its fisheries. He will also describe the many fish that inhabit the Hudson River.

At 11:00 a.m. Laura from Little City Books will conduct a story-time for kids focusing on eco-related books. Also under the Main Tent, the Fuzzy Lemons, very popular with the younger set, will perform at 1:30 and again at 2:30.

City of Water Day is an opportunity to recognize that the future of the Hoboken Cove is at risk: Governor Murphy and NJ Transit are threatening to locate a ferry maintenance, storage and refueling facility at the former Union Dry Dock site situated in the middle of the Hoboken Cove. The City of Hoboken and the Fund for a Better Waterfront have proposed that Hoboken acquire the Union Dry Dock property for use as a public park, completing one of the final missing links in Hoboken’s public, waterfront park. A diesel refueling and maintenance facility at Union Dry Dock would bring an end to most of the public recreation activities that now flourish in and around Hoboken Cove.

The Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse, Resilience Paddle Sports, Fund for a Better Waterfront & Hoboken Residents for a Public Waterfront are partnering to present City of Water Day at the Hoboken Cove. The nonprofit Waterfront Alliance based in New York City is sponsoring City of Water Day throughout the metropolitan region this same day, encouraging local “in your neighborhood” events. City of Water Day at the Hoboken Coveis supported in part by a grant from the Waterfront Alliance and the New York-New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program.