HOBOKEN – The Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse, Resilience Paddle Sports, Fund for a Better Waterfront, and Hoboken Residents for a Public Waterfront will present City of Water Day at the Hoboken Cove on July 14.
The free family festival that will celebrate the Hoboken Cove, a unique spot for accessing the Hudson River via kayak and paddleboard as well as providing a protected habitat for marine and shore wildlife.
The Boathouse will offer free kayaking, Resilience Paddle Sports will provide an opportunity for paddle boarding, and naturalist Noelle Thurlow will lead a bioblitz, an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area.
There will also be a series of educational opportunities – brief eco-talks about the migratory fish, shorebirds, and history of the Hudson River held throughout the day and workshops on water testing and environmental stewardship.
The Hoboken Cove is located at Maxwell Place Park at Sinatra Drive North near Eleventh Street.
Festivities begin at 10 a.m. and end at 4 p.m.
