That's why on Saturday, the third annual City of Water Day Festival will let the masses ferry, paddle, row, canoe and kayak their way to the city's waterfronts for a full day of free activities sponsored by the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance and Friends.
Last year I was on a cruise with friends and the guy sitting two rows up on the ferry boat to the island had a woman's hose wrapped around his stellar dreadlocks.
The top-seeded Panthers, who have won 23 games in a row and are 80-9 during Ferry's three seasons, earned a semifinal matchup against New York Tech at Queens College on Friday.
From the southernmost end of Southwold beach you can catch the "foot ferry" – a manned rowing boat – to somnolent Walberswick, on the far side of the Blyth river.
The barges being ready they rowed to the beach to ferry aboard horses and fine battle-helmets, loading the livestock in their livery and tack, then the tents, the tough shields, tools to lay siege, canopies, kit bags, exquisite coffers, ponies, hackneys, horses-of-armour... thus the stuff of stern knights was safely stored.
Perhaps equally important, the project has reopened public access to a stretch of urban waterfront, including the Ferry Building and a row of historic pier buildings, that had been hidden for decades behind an elevated freeway.
This ferry was operated by rowing boats until the 1960s; payment being at the discretion of the passenger.
From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Colonels Row, Governors Island, jazzagelawnparty.com; schedule for free ferry service is at governorsislandalliance.org; $30 in advance, $35 at the door, with V.I.P. packages at $49 and $149.
Crew who have been occupying a Condor ferry in St Malo, France, in a row over pay and conditions will return to work after they agreed new terms.
The show begins at 2 p.m. on the green at Colonel's Row, about a five-minute walk from the ferry.
Only two people among the two hundred knew how to row, so they took it in turns to ferry the others across.
