{"id":305358,"date":"2026-07-25T06:13:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305358\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T06:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:13:35","slug":"cardboard-boats-big-laughs-and-a-splashy-start-to-city-of-water-day-at-pier-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305358\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardboard Boats, Big Laughs and a Splashy Start to City of Water Day at Pier 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re going to celebrate New York City\u2019s waterways, you might as well start by launching a fleet of homemade cardboard boats into the Hudson River.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"937\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cardboard-kayak-race_0449.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152094\"\/>Teams raced cardboard kayaks in the Hudson River as part of a kick off for City of Water Day at Pier 84. Photo: Catie Savage<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was the scene Thursday evening at Manhattan Kayak Company\u2019s boathouse at Pier 84, where teams representing waterfront organizations, city agencies and environmental nonprofits spent two frantic hours transforming little more than cardboard and packing tape into boats they hoped would survive a race across the basin.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/catie-savage\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"Catie Savage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cropped-Catie-Savage-120x120.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a Hell&#8217;s Kitchen resident since 2005, I have lived in both the W30s and W50s. After a 15 year career in the luxury fashion industry, I made a pivot to community advocacy in 2020. In addition to my role as Deputy Editor at W42ST, I am founder of the local non-profit cleanup group Litter Legion, co-chair of HK49-54 Block Alliance and a former member of Manhattan Community Board 4. I\u2019m deeply committed to improving my neighborhood and serving the people who call it home.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/catie-savage\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Catie Savage\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re going to celebrate New York City\u2019s waterways, you might as well start by launching a fleet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4922,75,84,83,9,24,63,115687],"class_list":["post-305358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-hudsonriverpark","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pier84"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}