NYC SWIM

2010 Swim Series Registration Open

Enrollment for Manhattan Island Marathon Swim corporate and fundraising relay teams is now open. Application procedures and general policies are currently available.

Ederle Swim solo enrollment will open on March 1. Please see the application procedures and policies for additional information.

Record-Setting Swim Around Manhattan

Congratulations to Liz Fry on a record-setting clockwise Manhattan Island Marathon Swim! Liz, the first woman to swim around Manhattan in this direction, swam the course in 11 hours, 41 minutes, 5 seconds on September 18—shattering the previous record, held by Kris Rutford, by more than 6 hours.

Footage of the 2009 Liberty Island Swim

RCN: Presenting Sponsor of the NYC Summer Swim Series

We are privileged to have RCN Corporation as the presenting sponsor and the Preferred Cable, Phone and Internet Provider, of NYC Swim's New York City Swim Series.

RCN provides NYC Swim with valuable in-kind services, such as promoting the swim events to its customers, showing promotional spots on their cable network, and shooting video coverage that can be used as news clips. In addition, RCN's sponsorship will support our continuing work with the New York City Parks Department's Learn to Swim program, a free, fun-filled way for NYC children and adults to learn how to swim and improve their swimming skills.

RCN Corporation is one of the largest U.S providers of cable, high-speed internet and phone services, delivered over its own fiber-optic network, to residential and business customers. In addition to the New York market, RCN provides service in the Boston, Eastern Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Los Angeles metropolitan areas.

About Us

NYC Swim organizes swimming events in the waters around Manhattan. Since 1993, NYC Swim has attracted well over 10,000 participants in more than 125 swimming races, thus helping to revive a local aquatic tradition that had been abandoned for nearly a century. Showcasing many of the sights that make New York famous, our premier events are the Liberty Island, Manhattan Island Marathon, Brooklyn Bridge and Governors Island swims. In addition, NYC Swim hosts seven other events of various distances in 2010 including a multi-sport race and the Ederle Swim.

Mission

NYC Swim has two goals: to support and expand public Learn-to-Swim programs throughout New York City, particularly those that serve at-risk youth; and to raise public awareness of the waters that surround New York by supporting efforts to clean and protect them.