Manhattan Community Boathouse provides free kayaking at Pier 96 in Hudson River Park. Follow us on Instagram for real-time schedule updates! We are an all-volunteer nonprofit organization providing free public kayaking on the Hudson River. Paddle with us at Pier 96 in Hudson River Park. The corporation is formed to provide the general public with access to the Hudson River and to encourage safe recreational human-powered boating in New York City. The corporation will maintain a public boathouse in Hudson River Park, where it will operate a walk-up kayaking program, offer its dock as a public launch site for all human-powered boating, and lead guided kayak trips on the Hudson River. The corporation will also operate similar walk-up kayaking programs in other public parks within New York City. All operations of the corporation will be staffed entirely by volunteers, provided at no cost to participants, and funded by donations from the public.