'City Of Water Day' To Highlight Climate Change On BK Shoreline

BROOKLYN, NY — City of Water Day will return to Brooklyn this Saturday with a look at how rising sea levels affect urban shorelines, even along the Gowanus Canal.

The annual day of activities will include six distanced, outdoor events along the 1.5-mile waterway put on by the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, along with the City of Water Day organizers the Waterfront Alliance and NY-NJ Harbor and Estuary Program.

The events — including an oyster health check, art walk and pop-up dance show and concert — are among dozens that are set up to celebrate the day throughout New York and New Jersey.

Activities will also include demonstrations in Coney Island, Williamsburg's waterfront and Newtown Creek to explore the borough's "BlueLine," or the future high tide line where more than one million people live in the region.

Here's a look at the day's line-up of events:

Gowanus:

Gowanus Canal Shoreline Art Walk: 11:30 a.m. start at Brooklyn Habit, 405 Smith St. Details and purchase tickets here.

Self-Guided Gowanus Canoe Voyages: 1 to 5 p.m. First come, first served, boathouse at 165 2nd St. PFDs and waivers required.

Gowanus Oysters Health Check: 1 to 2:30 p.m. Esplanade near Sponge Park and Dredgers boathouse at 165 2nd St. Eels may show.

Gowanus Watermark Walk: 3 to 4:30 p.m. Tickets here. Meet at 575 Union St. for tour of future flood line with Steve Koller.

Pop-Up Folk at Gowanus Dredgers: 5 to 7 p.m. Singer Vienna Carroll and Gowanus Wildcats step team appear in a Porch Stomp production on waterfront near Dredgers Boathouse at 165 2nd St.

BRIDGES OF BRASS!: 7 to 8 p.m. Funkrust Brass Band takes to canoes on the Gowanus for a blowout that can be heard and seen from Gowanus bridges and esplanades. Free tickets and full details here.

BlueLine Demonstrations:

Kaiser Park At Coney Island Creek:

WHEN: Saturday, September 12, 10 a.m.

WHERE: Kaiser Park along Coney Island Creek (Bayview Ave entrance) - 2529 Neptune Ave.

WHAT: Brooklyn residents and community leaders will join a socially-distant demonstration on the peninsula of Coney Island’s connection with the region’s blue line. Brooklynites who are most negatively impacted and threatened by climate change will be telling their own stories.

Similar events held at Marsha P. Johnson State Park (formerly Bushwick Inlet Park) and at Newtown Creek, also at 10 a.m.