NYC SWIM

2009 Swim Series

It's time for the NYC Swim Double on Saturday, July 18 — the Aquathlon Stars & Stripes and the Riverside Park Tune Up Swim on July 18! Swimmer enrollment for both events is now closed, but volunteer enrollment remains open. It's going to be an exciting morning — come and join us!

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 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, NYC Swim hosts ten 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

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.