Beach Cleanups New York

Costume Paddle - Little Island and Pier A

Grab a costume, decorate your boat, and get on the water for our annual Halloween paddle. PREREQUISITES TO RSVP Volunteered at least 4 public programming shifts with our boathouse or Hudson River Cup in 2026 AND Completed 1+ trainings in 2026 AND Completed a wet exit in 2026 Timeline: - 10:45 AM: Meet at boathouse and prepare fleet/costumes for launch - 11:25 AM: Cutoff to arrive - 11:35 AM: Move boats to beach - 11:45 AM: Launch - 1:30 PM: Return to boathouse - 2:30 PM: Finish cleanup

[11 - 1 PM Sat.] Competitive Intermediate B/BB - Volleyball 4x4

（Additional Session) K-Culture Talk: Korean Beauty Standards

***✨ \*\*Due to popular demand, we’re adding another session of K-Culture: Korean Beauty Standards! \*\*✨*** **What makes someone “beautiful” in Korea?** From **K-drama and K-pop** to skincare, makeup, and plastic surgery, Korean beauty standards have become globally influential. But where do these ideals come from—and how are they changing? Come join us for a relaxed conversation about: * **Korean beauty ideals** — past and present * **K-Drama & K-Pop Idols** — how media shapes beauty trends * **Common Ideals:** clear/luminous skin, youthful appearance, small face, V-line, large-looking eyes, “glass skin,” and natural-looking makeup * **Beauty Treatment & Plastic Surgery:** Why Is It So Common? * **Beauty & Job Opportunities and Beauty as Social Capital:** how appearance can affect work, social life, confidence, and self-esteem * **Korean Buzzwords** for describing handsome men and beautiful women. Bring your questions, observations, or favorite K-drama or K-pop beauty moments! 🇰🇷 **Native Korean speakers are especially welcome to share your personal experiences, stories, and perspectives!** **🗣 Language:** The discussion will be conducted primarily in English, with Korean naturally mixed into the conversation. ✨ **The Vibe:** Easygoing and engaging. **👥 Who it’s for:** – . **K-drama, K-pop & K-beauty fans** – Korean/English speakers and learners. (Calling all Korean native speakers! Don’t be shy—come join us! **한국어 네이티브 분들, 다들 환영해요—부끄러워하지 마세요!**) – Anyone interested in Korean culture. 🔔 **Please Note** * Registration is **limited to 10 participants** to keep the discussion intimate and engaging. * Please register only if you're at least 70% sure you can make it. 😊 Since we reserve a room with limited seating, we'd love to avoid leaving empty seats that others could have used. Thank you for helping us plan! * If you can no longer attend, please **cancel your registration as early as possible** so someone on the waitlist has enough time to claim your spot. Thank you! 🔔**👥 How to find us?** Please enter through the **Capital One Cafe entrance on Broadway**. Walk straight ahead, and you’ll see **Community Room One on your left**. **Please do not walk toward the café area.**

Surftoberfest 2026

Want to come on the 11th annual Surftoberfest at Assateague? Camp, swim, surf, hang, skate and do all the things! Check out here for more info: https://gothamsurf.org/assateague-camping-trip/ DM to get on the list, spots will go fast! 9082688008

Brooklyn Greenway: Reverse Greenpoint to Coney Island - 21 miles

* Best of Brooklyn waterfront views * Fast, steady paced 21 miles * Walk along the Brooklyn Greenway from Greenpoint to Coney Island https://www.brooklyngreenway.org/the-greenway/greenway-map/ **MEET:** **9:30am** Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue Station 7 train stop. We will meet upstairs in front of Starbucks. We will start on time! **WALK**: Faster pace, 21 miles, approx 8-9 hours. This walk will follow the Brooklyn Greenway from Greenpoint to Coney Island: * walk over Pulaski Predestrian bridge * some stairs into Greenpoint for our first restroom stop. * continue along river: Domino Park Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park * Red Hook (late Lunch Break at former Fairway) * Industry City and Bay Ridge. * We will walk along Brooklyn Greenway bike pathway shore road view beautiful sunset passing the Verrazano Bridge to our finish in Coney Island. Plenty of dropout points. **FINISH:** The walk finishes in Coney Island. Coney Island subway station: D, F, N, Q trains. Option: beverage or food in Coney Island after the walk. Bring snacks, lunch, and plenty of water. **Take the Great Saunter Fall Challenge. [Register here](https://shorewalkers.org/join-a-saunter/) to walk 32 miles over 16 days, starting Oct. 3. Help Shorewalkers support our parks by donating $10 to participate, with all fees going to [Riverside Park Conservancy](https://riversideparknyc.org/). This walk will count for [21] miles of your total.** Hike leaders: Sigrid Stropnik (text with your name: 404-991-8229) Maureen Barodin (718-954-1581)

STOP. LAST EXIT. TREASURE AMID CONSTRUCTION

Longtime Shorewalkers Kiki Black and Prathima Christdas (aka Chris) will lead you through the renovated flood-proofed Wagner Park and the under-construction North/West Battery Park City. We’ll treasure-hunt poetry and artwork along the way. We start at the Edna St. Vincent Millay poem at the South Ferry Whitehall Terminal and then walk along the shoreline, zigzagging through three Battery Park City Resiliency Project passages. After a leisurely lunch break at Hudson Eats in the Brookfield Place complex, we will stroll down the soon-to-be-disappeared Poetry Walk (e.g., Lorca, Clifton, grade-school kids) to the Real-World statue park and Children’s Garden. **Distance**: The entire round trip route is approximately 7 miles, one-way approximately 4 miles. **Pace**: Slow to moderate stop-and-go pace, so might not work for Shorewalkers who prefer fast walks. Only the adaptable and adventurous need register as the route includes narrow BPRP passages, occasional retracing, and pauses at various points. **Meet** at 10:45 AM near the restrooms on the second floor of the South Ferry Whitehall Terminal. The walk starts promptly at 11:00 AM. Approximate end time is 3:30 PM. **Dropout options**: World Trade Center/Fulton Hubs for the subway and PATH; NYC and Waterway ferries outside Brookfield Properties; a short walk to the Wall Street ferry. **Guests** are welcome; please have them sign the [waiver and release via this link](https://tinyurl.com/28cez6j8) to participate. Guests should also be familiar with the walk description. **Bring**: Water, lunch, snacks, and anything else you might need. You can also buy lunch/snacks at Hudson Eats during our lunch break. Sunscreen/hat/scarf strongly recommended. Please check the weather forecast for what to wear. **Restrooms**: at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal and Brookfield Place **Rain date** to be determined. (Light rain doesn’t cancel.) **Registration** opens at 5 PM today, October 12th. If you must cancel, please do so by 9 PM on Saturday. Before registering for the walk, please * read the entire description * check your schedules to make sure that you're not double or triple booked for SW walks on Sunday **Leaders**: Kiki Black, 929-425-4212 Prathima Christdas, christdasp@yahoo.com

Riverfront Ramble Walk & Scavenger Hunt in Ft. Washington and Ft. Tryon Parks

Celebrate the end of the Fall Challenge by participating in the **[Riverfront Ramble](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/riverfront-ramble-tickets-2002227168359)**, a walk-and-scavenger-hunt in Fort Washington Park and Fort Tryon Park. Join us to present the Fall Challenge contribution check to [Riverside Park Conservancy ](https://riversideparknyc.org/)during our lunch break at the Little Red Lighthouse. The walk covers 5 miles with stairs and inclines; however, we will be moving at a comfortable pace. We start at 145th Street and end at Dyckman Street with drop-offs at 181st and 190th Streets to the A train. Enter Riverside Park at 145th Street, pick up paper maps for the scavenger hunt, and walk north to the Little Red Lighthouse. We'll stop for lunch at the Lighthouse and present the "big check" to Riverside Park. After lunch, climb up the steep hill and stop at Break Away Cafe, 71 Cabrini. Discount available on coffee/pastries to Ramble participants. We then head north on Cabrini to Fort Tryon Park for the second half of the scavenger hunt. Exit Fort Tryon Park and take the A or 1 trains at Dyckman Street. **MEET**: 11:45 am at Riverside Drive and 145th Street in front of the entrance to Riverbank State Park. The #1 train stops at 145th St. and Broadway one block away. At noon we'll enter Riverside Park and walk north looking for points of interest along the way. **BRING**: Water, snacks, lunch, sunscreen. The Riverfront Ramble is presented by [Riverside Park Conservancy](https://riversideparknyc.org), [Palisades Parks Conservancy](https://www.palisadesparks.org), and [Fort Tryon Park Conservancy](https://forttryonpark.org). This free cross-river walking adventure and scavenger hunt invites people of all ages to explore **Fort Washington Park, Palisades Interstate Park, and Fort Tryon Park**. To learn more and to register for the event go[ ](https://riversideparknyc.org/event/riverfront-ramble/)**[here](https://riversideparknyc.org/event/riverfront-ramble/)**. **Take the Great Saunter Fall Challenge! [Register here](https://shorewalkers.org/great-saunter-fall-challenge/) to walk 32 miles over 16 days, between October 3rd and 18th. Help Shorewalkers support our parks by donating $10 to participate, with all fees going to the Riverside Park Conservancy. This walk will count for 5 miles of your total.** Hike leaders: Carole Blane 917-407- 1166; Pam Cress 917-597-2664

Freegavaganza

**Join us in October for our Freegavaganza –** **a citywide exploration and scavenging of trash!** When you're out dumpster diving, do you ever wonder what you would have found if you had ventured to a different neighborhood instead? Maybe it's better over there... With the Freegavaganza, we dumpster the whole city! Small groups will venture to different neighborhoods throughout the city to see what food they can find that’s been disposed of. We will reconvene after at Union Square at with an impressive display of all sorts of supermarket, bakery and convenience store discards. We will start at 9pm at 14th Street, Union Square, across from Whole Foods, welcoming all who want to join a huge city-wide dumpster dive. The people who want to start in a different part of the city do not need to start at Union Square, but please contact Janet (347-724-6954) to let her know which neighborhood or area they plan to rescue food from. We will all meet up at Union Square at 11. We will make a huge display of food found all around the city. We recommend that people travel in groups or teams of 2-4. If people are not experienced or comfortable going alone or if they don't have a team, they should come to Union Square at 9 and we will find teams for everyone. We have had great success in the past, with a lot of variety of food rescued, and then a lot of people happy to salvage it.

Palisades & Platanos!! 🍌

Who wants to join us in taking in endless spectacular views, while enjoying a good hike, ending it with some **FAN FREAKIN TASTIC** Dominican 🇩🇴 food over at Malecon at W175 & Broadway?! **YES—THEY HONOR SEPARATE CHECKS‼️😆✨🤸‍♀️** Take the Great Saunter Fall Challenge! [Register here](https://shorewalkers.org/join-a-saunter/) to walk 32 miles over 16 days, starting October 3rd. Help Shorewalkers support our parks by donating $10 to participate, with all fees going to the [Riverside Park Conservancy](https://riversideparknyc.org) . This walk will count for 12 of your total miles! **Meeting Point:** We will meet on the 3rd Floor of the GW Bridge Port Authority Bus Station waiting area at 9:45AM—we take off at 10:00AM. **Details:** We will cross over the GW Bridge. Head into the Palisades Interstate Park and crossing into Burdetts Landing, that will take us onto the Shore Trail. We will take this up to the Englewood Boat Basin area and we will head back towards the Ross Dock Picnic area, climb up the Carpenter’s trail, which boasts elevation gain: hikers’ GPS recordings show roughly 380–390 feet of cumulative climbing, which aligns closely with the official 320-foot cliff ascent/descent. This will take us onto the Long Path looping U.S. back over to the NJ side of the GW Bridge. **POINT TO POINT THIS WALK IS ABOUT 12 MILES.** **Optional:** For those who wish to join us at Malecon after we cross over the GWB, take a look at the menu [here](https://maleconnyc.com/menu) **ℹ️ 📝** For those who wish to stay on the NJ side, there’s bus 🚌 158 that has bus stops all along the route on River Road you could take as it would take you back over to the GW Bridge bus 🚌 station. ℹ️ 📝 For those who wish to walk back over the GW Bridge with me, we’ll walk back over and catch the A train or the 1 train from W181. **Bathroom 🚽 and water fillable Stops:** * GW Bridge Port Authority 3rd Floor Waiting Area * Englewood Boat Basin * Ross Dock Picnic Area * Spigot 🚰 at entrance of Ross 🧺 * water fountain at Englewood Cliffs 🧺 **Features:** * Spectacular views across the GW Bridge * Various bird 🐦 peeping * Deer 🦌 beavers 🦫 and more * Incredible views of the NY side, including seeing our beloved Little Red Light House **⚠️ HEADS UP AND WARNING ⚠️** * Please wear either hiking 🥾 boots or have footwear that offers good traction on them. * We will be going up and down stone stairs that are both narrow and steep, so if this is something that concerns you, then this may not be the walk for you. * Hiking poles ideal for those who have. * **LOCK 🔐 YOUR POLES!!!!** * Bring insect repellent WITH DEET—there will be ticks out there! * water 💦 drinking is IMPORTANT!! Please remember to regularly hydrate yourself. * **ONCE YOU’RE ON THE TRAIL—THERE’S NO TURNING BACK!** Trains 🚊 on the NY side: A or 1 trains at W181. Bus 🚌 on the NJ side: 158 with different bus stops on River Road. 📝 Please check your Transit app for details on your trains/buses to get to the meeting place, as it’s cowboy country when it comes to commuting on the weekends!! 🥴 There’s always something going on, reroutes, etc…

Alpine: Elite Volunteer Trip - 30 miles

**Elite Level Volunteer Trip - Alpine - 30 miles** Our longest trip north! We will paddle and watch the beautiful palisades with hopefully lots of fall foliage**🍂** We may also stop and check out a cute tiny waterfall. You must be able to paddle at least 4 knots per hour for the 6+ hours. Please understand that this will be a **fast paced marathon** and you must keep up. **PREREQUISITES TO RSVP:** Make sure you pass all the requirements below before RSVPing * Volunteered a minimum of 4 embayment shifts in 2026 * You have experienced and show complete control of your craft in 1-2 ft waves, and 10+ knots of wind * Make sure you read the "craft prerequisites" **CRAFT PREREQUISITES** You have **experienced** conditions and demonstrated the following skills on the craft you chose: * You have completed an elite trip in 2025 or 2026 OR have completed an advanced trip in the craft of your choice in 2026 * You can land and take off without any assistance * You can and will carry ALL your own stuff (looking at you SUPers) * You are very very fast and have lots of stamina to keep up a fast pace for 3+ hours each way. * You can comfortably paddle for 8 hours * If you plan to take an OC you must be a *2026 supporting paddler* and have a Ke Aloha coach contact the host with approval **COME PREPARED:** * Make sure you have proper clothing to temperature of air and water and other conditions * Sunscreen * Water in a reusable bottle. Lots of water * Snacks * FOOD! There is no place to buy food there!!! *Plan accordingly* * Anything else need to spend 8 hours on the water * At least two waterproof all around white lights **TIMELINE:** * 4:30 AM - meet at the boathouse, get equipment ready * **4:45 AM - Hard cut off to arrive. Please do not be upset, but if you are not at the boathouse at this time you will not join the trip** * 5:00 AM - safety briefing * 5:15 AM - move boats to beach * 5:30 AM - depart * 9:00 AM - arrive at Alpine We'll have 90 minutes to relax and eat. * 10:30 AM - meet back at the beach, prepare equipment, and safety briefing * 10:45 AM - depart * 2:30 PM - arrive at boathouse * 3:00 PM - clean and put away equipment * 3:30 PM - trip ends \-\-\- **Pier 92** 2026-10-24 7:32 AM flood 2.23 2026-10-24 10:26 AM slack - 2026-10-24 2:00 PM ebb -3.21 **Riverdale** 2026-10-24 8:00 AM flood 1.67 2026-10-24 10:50 AM slack - 2026-10-24 2:40 PM ebb -2.23

Big Apple Divers October 2026 Meeting and Happy Hour

Join us for our October Club Meeting as we welcome back Chris Paparo (Fish Guy Photos), a Long Island native, award-winning photographer, scientist, writer, and lecturer! Chris has spent more than three decades exploring and documenting the natural wonders of Long Island Sound and the surrounding coastal environment. He holds a B.S. in Marine Science from Long Island University/Southampton, manages the Marine Sciences Center at Stony Brook University's Southampton campus, and is an award-winning member of both the Outdoor Writers Association of America and the New York State Outdoor Writers Association. [https://www.fishguyphotos.com](https://www.fishguyphotos.com) 🌊 ABOUT THE TALK: SOFO Shark Research Program: Unveiling the Secrets of Long Island's Sharks Long Island's coastal waters are home to an impressive diversity of sharks, yet much about these fascinating animals remains a mystery. In 2015, a dedicated team of researchers deployed the first satellite tag on a juvenile great white shark off Long Island's south shore. A collaboration with OCEARCH over the following two summers led to 20 more white sharks being tagged off Montauk. 🦈 Chris will share the ongoing work of the Shark Research and Education Program at the South Fork Natural History Museum, and how it's helping us better understand one of the ocean's most fascinating apex predators, right here in our own waters. 🌊💙 🦈 Come dive into the secrets of Long Island's sharks and see what the research is revealing! 🆕 First time joining us? The first 10 new attendees score a $15 Club Cash Voucher for refreshments. Find a Board Member to claim yours! 📍 Brazen Tavern (Upstairs)
356 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036
🗓️ Wednesday, October 21
🍺 Happy Hour: 6:00 PM
🕖 Club Business: 7:00–7:30 PM
🎤 Guest Speaker: 7:45 PM #BigAppleDivers [Click here for more information](https://bigappledivers.com/abouttheclub/meetings/index.html).

REVERSE Saunter Stretch Series - Stretch #3 (Day 1)

Over three consecutive days, Tuesday through Thursday, we'll walk the iconic 32-mile Great Saunter route in reverse (counterclockwise), circumnavigating Manhattan Island up the East Side and down the West Side The series begins on Tuesday with Stretch #3 of the regular Great Saunter route, approximately 11 miles and about 5 hours at a moderate pace. The next walk in the series will take place on Wednesday, October 14. On Tuesday, we'll begin at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal and walk up the East Side to East 125th Street. Join us for all or part of the walk; there will be multiple drop-out points along the route. Meet at 10:00 a.m. on the second floor of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, outside the restrooms, for a prompt 10:15 a.m. departure. Please use the restrooms before 10:15 a.m. We will follow the East River as closely as possible, enjoying waterfront parkland in Lower Manhattan, including Pier 42 Park, which was recently connected to John V. Lindsay East River Park. Several detours will be necessary due to ongoing work associated with the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project. Our lunch break will be in Andrew Haswell Greenpark on the East Midtown Greenway. There will be several restrooms available along the way. The walk ends at the Harlem-125th Street Metro-North train station (125 Street & Park Avenue), one block East of the 125 Street subway stop of the 4/5/6 trains. Bring: water, sunscreen, a hat, snacks and lunch. Leaders: Brigitte, 646-651-3911; Laura, 917-658-6779, on day of walk only. **Take the Great Saunter Fall Challenge. [Register here](https://shorewalkers.org/join-a-saunter/) to walk 32 miles over 16 days, starting Oct. 3. Help Shorewalkers support our parks by donating $10 to participate, with all fees going to [Riverside Park Conservancy](https://riversideparknyc.org/). This walk will count for 11 miles of your total.**