This Saturday, catch a free ferry to Governors Island to enjoy boat tours and other activities on City of Water

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MWA Presents City of Water Day – Festival Home

On the Water, For the Water Saturday, July 16, 2011 • 10am to 4pm Presented by the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance A FREE day of entertainment, education & adventure celebrating the potential of our waterfront! From the upper Hudson to Raritan Bay, we are a City of Water-yet too many of us are cut off from this tremendous resource.

Oysters!

“In Dutch and English days, immense beds of oysters grew in the harbor. They bordered the shores of Brooklyn and Queens, and they encircled Manhattan, Staten Island, and the islands in the Upper Bay…”