Manhattan Island Foundation

2009 Swim Series

Enrollment for all of the 2009 Swim Series events will open on February 14, 2009. Please see the individual swim pages for additional information.

RCN to Sponsor 2008 Swim Series

We continue to be thrilled to have RCN Corporation, as the presenting sponsor and the Preferred Cable, Phone and Internet Provider, of the Manhattan Island Foundation’s New York City Swim Series.

RCN provides the Foundation 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 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

The Manhattan Island Foundation, founded in 1993, organizes swimming events in the waters around Manhattan. Since its inception, the Foundation has attracted nearly 10,000 participants in more than 110 swimming races, thus helping to revive a local aquatic tradition that had been abandoned for nearly a century. In addition to the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, the Foundation is also hosting eight other events of various distances in 2009 including a multi-sport race, the Governors Island Swim, the Brooklyn Bridge Swim and the Ederle Swim.

Mission

The Manhattan Island Foundation 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. Thanks to the Foundation, more than 40,000 city children have learned to swim in the last 12 years.

Special Reminders for Participants

Please check the MIF home page for last minute information on the status of an event.