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I’m a Native New Yorker—This Sailing Is One of the Best Ways I’ve Seen the City

On a sun-soaked July afternoon, with August just around the corner, I met four of my closest friends at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 5 for one of my favorite New York experiences to date: an evening on the water with Brooklyn Sail. We arrived at the Brooklyn Heights waterfront to a scene that felt very quintessentially Brooklyn—soccer fields running alongside the marina, kids gathered around the harbor’s oyster restoration projects, and sailboats gently rocking in their slips with the Manhattan skyline stretching across the water. It was hard to believe that the Financial District, which I had just left, was just a 20-minute subway ride away. I first stumbled across Brooklyn Sail while browsing Airbnb Experiences, looking for something fun to plan for my friends that felt a little different than the usual dinner reservation or rooftop happy hour. It was one of the few experiences that still had plenty of availability about two weeks out—including after-work departures and weekend sails—and the reviews were filled with people sharing their own stories on the water, not just handing out blank five stars. I sent the listing to my group chat almost immediately. We arrived at t

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I’m a Native New Yorker—This Sailing Is One of the Best Ways I’ve Seen the City

On a sun-soaked July afternoon, with August just around the corner, I met four of my closest friends at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 5 for one of my favorite New York experiences to date: an evening on the water with Brooklyn Sail. We…

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I’m a Native New Yorker—This Sailing Is One of the Best Ways I’ve Seen the City

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