IMPORTANT NOTE: Please check the location of your event, as we host programming in multiple locations. We cannot delay launch or refund tickets if you arrive at the wrong spot.

  • Free Walk-Up Paddling

    Walk-Up Paddles
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Stop down and launch a canoe for a self-guided paddle from our floating docks at the Gowanus Dredgers Bunker Launch Site!  Limited to the mouth of the Gowanus Canal to 9th Street and Free (donations encouraged). Please note, this activity is NOT at our 2nd St Boathouse. Bring a friend and we'll outfit you with equipment and give […]

  • Pride Paddle 2024

    Specialty Guided Tour
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride & paddle with us in June as we offer a special voyage of Gowanus Bay and lower Canal. This is our sixth annual Pride Paddle! We persisted right through each year of the pandemic, because celebrating and signaling the importance of inclusion on the waterfront is crucial to our work.

  • Free Walk-Up Paddling

    Walk-Up Paddles
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Stop down and launch a canoe for a self-guided paddle from our floating docks at the Gowanus Dredgers Bunker Launch Site!  Limited to the mouth of the Gowanus Canal to 9th Street and Free (donations encouraged). Please note, this activity is NOT at our 2nd St Boathouse. Bring a friend and we'll outfit you with equipment and give […]

  • Sunset & Full Moon Gowanus Voyage – June

    Specialty Guided Tour
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Join our Crew on a sunset and full-moon guided adventure!! The moon will be up as the sun is setting, so we get a two-for-one! Meet at the the Gowanus Dredgers Bunker, at the end of 19th St / off 3rd Ave, 11232 - NOT our 2nd St. boathouse. Tickets required, available here. Moonrise 6:36p […]

  • Unheard-of Ensemble : Not in Fact Dead – RESCHEDULED

    Unheard-of Ensemble Cultural Ecologies Series
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Unheard-of Ensemble's Cultural Ecologies returns! The first performance at the Bunker (2 19th Street) features ensemble members and composer-performers Ford and Iva presenting two premieres. Ford’s work sets the murky, sentimental poetry of Brad Vogel, Gowanus local and former Dredgers captain with video created in collaboration with artist Bonnie Ralston, while Iva’s work explores her […]

  • Free Walk-Up Paddling

    Walk-Up Paddles
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Stop down and launch a canoe for a self-guided paddle from our floating docks at the Gowanus Dredgers Bunker Launch Site!  Limited to the mouth of the Gowanus Canal to 9th Street and Free (donations encouraged). Please note, this activity is NOT at our 2nd St Boathouse. Bring a friend and we'll outfit you with equipment and give […]

  • Free Walk-Up Paddling

    Walk-Up Paddles
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Stop down and launch a canoe for a self-guided paddle from our floating docks at the Gowanus Dredgers Bunker Launch Site!  Limited to the mouth of the Gowanus Canal to 9th Street and Free (donations encouraged). Please note, this activity is NOT at our 2nd St Boathouse. Bring a friend and we'll outfit you with equipment and give […]

  • Birding By Canoe

    Specialty Guided Tour
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Birding by canoe, what could be better? Gowanus is an industrial area teeming with wildlife. Paddling along the canal and the mouth of the Gowanus bay is a great way to experience the vast biodiversity around us. Get your  now! We'll head out in the morning from our 19th St. Bunker Launch site and see what kind of […]

  • Earth Week Shoreline Clean & Green

    Community Work Days
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Join us at the Bunker (2 19th St.) for an Earth week shoreline clean & green! We're going to get the site ready for the upcoming season opening in May. Our plans include working on the OPTI habitats, creating some planters on the site and sprucing up everything to get ready to welcome the public […]