Manhattan Island Foundation

2008 Swim Series

Enrollment for most of the events in the 2008 Swim Series is open! Please check the individual swim pages for information on each event and the link to sign up.

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 70 swimming races, thus helping to revive a local aquatic tradition that had been abandoned for nearly a century.

The season's premier contest is the annual Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, which draws an international roster of swimmers. This summer the Foundation is also hosting eight other events of various distances including one multi-sport race.

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

For last minute information on the status of an event, call the MIF hotline at 888-NYC-SWIM (888-692-7946).