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Join North Brooklyn Boat Club

The North Brooklyn Boat Club is a nonprofit, volunteer-run community organization. Our mission is to promote human-powered boating on and the environmental restoration of the waterways around Greenpoint and the rest of New York City.

NBBC depends on member support through annual dues and volunteer participation. Become a part of your community boat club for all the best things:

Community • Advocacy • Adventure • Paddling

See our Membership page today.

Visit the NBBC Paddle Gallery

The Kosciuszko without the old span, July 27, 2017
Public Paddle with guests from Make the Road New York, June 10, 2017
Beginner kayak trip, August 5, 2016
Cormorants and Egret at Maspeth Creek, Birdwatching Paddle, July 29, 2016
Bushwick Inlet, birthplace of the Monitor, 10/16/16
Up the Creek Canoe Skills Paddle, Newtown Creek, August 9, 2017
Up the Creek Canoe Skills Paddle, Newtown Creek, August 9, 2017
Roosevelt Island Circ, May 27, 2017
Roosevelt Island Circ, May 27, 2017
Bushwick Inlet Paddle, August 8, 2016
New town Creek, April 2017
Birdwatching Paddle, August 5, 2016
Roosevelt Island circ, August 15, 2016
Wallabout Bay, October 14, 2017
Dutch Kills, April 2017
Bushwick Inlet, May 27, 2017
Dutch Kills, April 2017
Dutch Kills, April 2017
To the Bitter End, Newtown Creek, July 21, 2016
Garbage train across Bronx Kill, from Randalls Island, August 7, 2016
Roosevelt Island circ, August 15, 2016
Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! cast red and yellow light over the tops of the houses!
City Lights DUMBO trip, August 24, 2016
Bushwick Inlet, May 27, 2017
Dutch Kills, April 2017
Bushwick Inlet, birthplace of the Monitor, 10/16/16
Beginner kayak trip, August 5, 2016
Dutch Kills, April 2017
Roosevelt Island circ, August 15, 2016
Hallets Cove, July 10, 2018
U Thant cormorants, May 2016
In Bronx Kill, Randalls Island circ, August 7, 2016
Dutch Kills, April 2017
Fifty-Ninth Street Bridge, Randalls Island circ, August 7, 2016
Roosevelt Island, west channel, after Hallets Cove, July 10, 2018
Farewell to the Kosciuszko Bridge from the Boatyard. July 26, 2017
Bushwick Inlet Paddle, August 8, 2016
On the way to Hallets Cove, July 10, 2018
Beginner kayak trip, August 5, 2016
In Bushwick Inlet, 10/16/16
Dutch Kills, April 2017
Beginner kayak trip, August 5, 2016
Night heron at sunset, Bushwick Inlet Paddle, August 8, 2016
Roosevelt Island circ, August 15, 2016
Dutch Kills, April 2017
Roosevelt Island circ, August 15, 2016
These and all else were to me the same as they are to you, I loved well those cities, loved well the stately and rapid river,
In Bronx Kill, Randalls Island circ, August 7, 2016
Kayak Conservation Photography Trip, June 10, 2017
Taking a break at pier 96, with thanks to Manhattan Community Boat House. Manhattan Circ, October 7, 2017
Roosevelt Island circ, August 15, 2016
A sure hand, Manhattan Circ, October 7, 2017
Bushwick Inlet trip, May 27, 2017
Approaching the Battery, Manhattan Circ, October 7, 2017
From Bronx Kill, Randalls Island circ, August 7, 2016
Beginner kayak trip, August 5, 2016
Beginner kayak trip, August 5, 2016
Beginner kayak trip, August 5, 2016
Egrets at Bronx Kill, Randalls Island circ, August 7, 2016
"Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh’d"
City Lights DUMBO trip, August 24, 2016
Great egret in Dutch Kills, Birdwatching Paddle, August 5, 2016
Queensboro Bridge, Roosevelt and Manhattan Islands from the East River, 10/12/16
Beginner kayak trip, August 5, 2016
Greenpont Ave. Bridge, Birdwatching Paddle, August 5, 2016
Public Paddle with guests from Make the Road New York, June 10, 2017
In Whale Creek, Birdwatching Paddle, August 5, 2016
To the Bitter End: New BQE bridge on Newtown Creek, July 21, 2016
Changing leaves in Bushwick Inlet, 10/16/16
Up the Creek Canoe Skills Paddle, Newtown Creek, August 9, 2017
Public Paddle, 2017
Fishing during the canoe picnic, Randalls Island, August 7, 2016
Kayak Conservation Photography Trip, June 10, 2017
Transmitter Park from the East River, 10/16/16
Cormorants and Egret at Maspeth Creek, Birdwatching Paddle, July 29, 2016
Dutch Kills, April 2017
Dutch Kills, April 2017
Sailboats and Liberty Island, Manhattan Circ, October 7, 2017
The men and women I saw were all near to me, Others the same—others who look back on me because I look’d forward to them,
To the Bitter End, Newtown Creek, July 21, 2016
Loading the big canoe, Manhattan Circ, October 7, 2017
Roosevelt Island circ, August 15, 2016
Cormorants at Maspeth Creek, Birdwatching Paddle, July 29, 2016
In Dutch Kills, Birdwatching Paddle, August 5, 2016
Dutch Kills, April 2017
"The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river"
Dutch Kills, April 2017
Bushwick Inlet Paddle, August 8, 2016
Entering Bushwick Inlet, 10/16/16
Beginner kayak trip, August 5, 2016
Dutch Kills, April 2017
Roosevelt Island circ, August 15, 2016
Beginner kayak trip, August 5, 2016
In Dutch Kills, Birdwatching Paddle, August 5, 2016
Dutch Kills, April 2017
To the Bitter End, Newtown Creek, July 21, 2016
Birdwatching Paddle, August 5, 2016
Farewell to the Kosciuszko Bridge from the Boatyard. July 26, 2017
Hallets Cove, October 21, 2017
Roosevelt Island circ, August 15, 2016
It avails not, time nor place—distance avails not,
Farewell to the Kosciuszko Bridge from the Boatyard. July 26, 2017
Hallets Cove, July 10, 2018
City Lights DUMBO trip, August 24, 2016
Whither Liberty? Bushwick Inlet trip, May 27, 2017
Dutch Kills, April 2017
City Lights DUMBO trip, August 24, 2016
Roosevelt Island circ, August 15, 2016
Beginner kayak trip, August 5, 2016
To the Bitter End, Newtown Creek, July 21, 2016
Canoes in Bushwick Inlet, August 10, 2017
The Kosciuszko without the old span, July 27, 2017
City Lights DUMBO trip, August 24, 2016
To the Bitter End Paddle, Newtown Creek, July 21, 2016
To the Bitter End, Newtown Creek, July 21, 2016
Kayak Conservation Photography Trip, June 10, 2017
Canoes and Kayaks in Bushwick Inlet, August 10, 2017
To the Bitter End, Newtown Creek, July 21, 2016
To the Bitter End, Newtown Creek, July 21, 2016
Roosevelt Island Circ, May 27, 2017
City Lights DUMBO trip, August 24, 2016
Roosevelt Island circ, August 15, 2016
Receive the summer sky, you water, and faithfully hold it till all downcast eyes have time to take it from you!

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Location and Contact

The home of our hearts: 51 Ash St., Brooklyn NY 11222

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Starting in 2019, we are not based at the boatyard as we await construction of a permanent boathouse there. Our programming is in three other locations:

• Public Paddles and Member Programming at Manhattan Avenue Street End Park:

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• Member Programming and Classes at Brooklyn Barge:

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• Member Programming and Classes at Long Island City Community Boathouse:

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Meet NBBC’s Trip Leaders and Volunteers!

Dewey, old-school!
Brad will save you!
Ros, Peter, Mark pranking in Bushwick Inlet, September 17, 2015
Jens, Gertie, and Millie on Newtown Creek
Vince in his kayak
War-canoe rescue training, Hallets Cove
Klaus S. at Liberty
Vince surfs it in!
Ros on a sunset paddle, September 2016
Dewey the intrepid winter paddler at Coney Island
Patterson shows off the wildlife thriving in the Living Dock
Vince in the harbor
Ros gives paddle instruction, Opening Day, 2016
Monica at trip leader training, Tybee Island, Georgia, 2012
First canoe-kayak Roosevelt Island circ, 2012
Klaus R. braves the winter weather.
Paper boat building, July 2014
Pete provides the public Public Paddle paddle prep
Jens and Fung at work on a 1930 Old Town Canoe
Vince rides the surf
Patterson at canoe rescue training, June 2014
Prepping for big canoe rescue training, May 2016.
Monica after receiving trip leader certification, Tybee Island, Georgia, 2012
Amy in the bow at a public paddle, 2015
Klaus S. at the Earth Day Action, 2016
Peter on the Creek
Brad and Klaus on the East River
Ros gets a group ready on Opening Day, 2016
Michael On Loch Tay
Klaus leading a canoe trip on Newtown Creek
Patterson, Willis, and Brian with a visiting class

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Gothamist: Nearly 100 Gather for Canoe Party On Newtown Creek
NBBC on Jimmy Kimmel Live with Bill Murray
Gothamist: Signs of Life on Newtown Creek
Crazy Canoe Trip: 200 Miles Down the Hudson River, in a Paper Canoe: Packsmith
Atlas Obscura
Best Boat Club: Village Voice
Best Dates in BK: Brooklyn Magazine
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