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NBBC Education Coordinator 2018-1

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Patterson shows wildlife thriving in the Living Dock to a class from St. Joseph College

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The North Brooklyn Community Boathouse is a nonprofit, volunteer-run community organization. Our mission is to enable access to the waterways of NYC for its residents and thus promote human-powered boating and environmental restoration. We bring our community back to its own waters.

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Visit the NBCB Paddle Gallery

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

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Meet NBCB’s Trip Leaders and Volunteers!

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

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