PLEASE NOTE: We have two launch locations, the Boathouse at 165 2nd St. / off Bond St. and the Bunker at the end of 19th St. off of 3rd Ave. The starting place for each activity is listed with the event listing. In general, guided tours leave from 19th St. Walk-Up paddling may be at either location, depending on the current status of the work in the canal. It takes about 35 minutes to walk between the locations and about 10 minutes to drive. PLEASE CHECK the location to ensure you are not late to a timed tour. Trips can not be joined once the group leaves the dock.
[ Rain 30 min. Prior to start time may cancel event and dates +30 days in the future are subject to change ]
Our 8th annual Gowanus Dawn Reading! We’ll proclaim poetry from Julian Talamantez Brolaski's "gowanus atropolis" in canoes on the Gowanus Canal!
A Persistence of Cormorants is a summer-long poetry reading series on our shoreline featuring accomplished and exceptional poets from the New York area, many of who live in Brooklyn. On […]
A Persistence of Cormorants is a summer-long poetry reading series on our shoreline featuring accomplished and exceptional poets from the New York area, many of who live in Brooklyn. On […]
Socialize with the Dredgers at our BOATHOUSE (165 2nd St.) to discuss the latest updates on Gowanus and get involved. We continue to plan new and fun events on our […]
Join the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club as we give a few of our old canoes a makeover with the help of some amazing local artists!
Join the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club as we give a few of our old canoes a makeover with the help of some amazing local artists!
Each year, as part of the Brooklyn Folk Festival , contestants gather on the banks of the fetid Gowanus Canal to see who can throw a banjo the farthest in the - BANJO TOSS: BANJO THROWING COMPETITION! The special "throwing banjo", attached to a rope is tossed into the canal, a federally designate Super Fund site. The marked rope pays out, showing how far the banjo has been tossed. It is then hauled back in for the next throw.
Socialize with the Dredgers at our BOATHOUSE (165 2nd St.) to discuss the latest updates on Gowanus and get involved. We continue to plan new and fun events on our […]
Help us close down the Bunker for the season. We'll be doing some light construction work and building out a new canoe rack, come ready to get dusty and dirty […]
Join LULITA for a listening party for her upcoming Argentinian Folk EP. Light snacks and drinks will be served, and the EP listening will be followed by a short live performance.
We're 25! Come by the boathouse at 2nd and Bond to help us celebrate our anniversary and the end of a fantastic season.
"Inner and Outer Transformations: The Climate Crisis" is an immersive multimedia exhibition curated through a blend of fine art photography, poetry, live music, and community climate engagement activities on climate adaptation on flooding in NYC.
