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We are in the process of rebuilding and restoring the marina and piers that were destroyed during Superstorm Sandy. It will be fully completed in Spring 2022.

Parks Department in talks to operate City Island marina

“At the end of the day, (the Stuyvesant) is an institution that has to meet its financial obligations,”said Doyle, who added “The Parks Department is an agency we expect more transparency out of.”

Parks could enter into a short-term lease, but if it were to purchase the club and turn it into one of their facilities, it would eventually trigger a Uniform Land Use Review Process, said Barbara Dolesnek, CICA vice president.

“Though no plan of action is set, we made clear that we were being responsive to the club’s interest in staying viable, and we do believe that the marina could serve very well as a public amenity,” the Parks spokesman stated.

“The club property would continue with the same use it has enjoyed at this location for the past 90 years,” she stated, adding “We would continue to be good, respectful neighbors for hopefully the next ninety years.”

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9 years later: City Island still waiting for Sandy reconstruction projects

BRONX, N.Y. — Barbara Dolensek is back at the dock again to check on the water quality. An improvement could mean the oyster shells are doing their job.

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City island was among the hardest hit neighborhoods in new york city during supestorm sandy after the historic storm, city and state lawmakers promised to flood proof east bronx since many post-sandy projects have not happened, some residents are hoping to build storm surge barrier using oyster shells.

“The reason they are so effective in dealing with storm surges and with cleaning the water, is that although an oyster is a tiny thing, it grows quickly and they tend to attach to each other, so that once a baby oyster attaches to another oyster they create these huge reefs that prevent storms from hitting the shoreline,” said Dolensek.

Along with some neighbors, she started the City Island Oyster Reef Project. It's an effort to repurpose shells discarded by local restaurants to build a reef that would protect the waterfront community from storm surges, like the one she will never forget during Superstorm Sandy. She says she hasn’t seen anything like it in the more than 40 years she’s lived here.

“Demolished the docks at the Stuyvesant Yacht Club, ruined the boats at the City Island boat yard, and did a lot of damage all over. Trees fell," said Dolensek.

City Island was among the hardest hit neighborhoods during the devastating and historic storm nine years ago. The overflow of the Long Island Sound and Eastchester Bay descended on the quaint community. Flames engulfed a neighborhood restaurant. The powerful winds played Ping-Pong with the boats and yachts, slamming them into docks. And while Sandy is in the past, the flooding problem remains. Any time it rains, streams take over the streets and pools form in the potholes.

"It feels as if the Bronx remains the forgotten borough,” said Matthew Cruz, District Manager of Community Board 10 in the Bronx.

Cruz says the city and state both promised big changes there after Sandy, but they have yet to happen. Specifically, the city’s Bridge Street project to build new and repair existing storm drains and the New York Rising initiative. The latter, a statewide reconstruction plan to flood proof neighborhoods in the wake of Sandy. It was crafted by now former governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration, but East Bronx waterfront never saw any of the funding. Cruz is hoping Governor Kathy Hochul, will adopt the plan and put it in motion.

“I know that projects such as sewer projects are not as marketable for city and state government but those projects save lives,” said Cruz.

A spokesman for the city Department of Design and Construction tells NY1 they plan to start building six storm and sanitary sewers on City Island in about one year. Dolensek says it’s a start.

“The entire system for sewers on City Island was installed in 1938," she noted.

Unless that happens. She’ll be here, with the oysters, doing her part.

“There’s only so much what we can do to protect what we have, but we just have to learn to live with it,” Dolensek said. 

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Following is the first set of answers from Bob Roistacher, the chairman of the New York City Community Sailing Association, which offers sailing lessons, racing, cruising and day sailing.

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I have been told by friends that there are a number of places in city waters where the current is much stronger than the wind or even likely engine power. Is there a good source for understanding where these spots are?

— Posted by Boatlessfor now

Yes, look at a chart (for mariners) or map (for landlubbers) to see where a channel of water narrows. The Venturi principle (remember your high school physics?) explains why a fluid would have greater speed in the narrow passage than on either side. So, notoriously, Hell Gate, where the East River is constrained between Wards Island and Astoria, the ebb can approach five knots — nautical miles per hour (a nautical mile equals 1.15 statute miles). Also on the East River, where its already strong current is further constricted by Roosevelt Island, the current veritably rips. Larger sailboats, usually with auxiliary engines, may transit the East River off Manhattan and Brooklyn, but it is not a felicitous place to sail.

I am a member of the Stuyvesant Yacht Club on City Island. We are always seeking new members who will actively support the club, including associate members who can make use of our fleet of Ensigns. What advice can Mr. Roistacher offer to build a successful sailing organization in New York?

— Posted by James McGinnis

I have always admired the spirit of the Stuyvesant Yacht Club, much as I do the Nyack Boat Club , where egalitarianism prevails. When I was an undergraduate at Columbia, we raced our Tech Dinghies , then the standard college racer, from Stuyvesant’s facilities.

SailNY is not an organization that wants to build a successful organization: we wish to grow sailing. But yacht clubs are hurting, because sailing was a declining sport well before the current recession. My best advice to those who wish to grow a program is to attend US Sailing’s annual National Sailing Programs Symposium .

For someone around Manhattan who has already completed a basic keelboat course or the American Sailing Association courses, what is the best way to get more practice without breaking the bank?

— Posted by Certified but Need Practice

The commercial sailing organizations can break your bank with initiation fees and high annual rates, but you can sail and race for an entire season with a nonprofit like SailNY for only $350. Move to Boston, so you can join Community Boating , the granddaddy of community sailing organizations, for $240, including instruction.

Just as most people don’t realize that Brooklyn is on Long Island (many surveys have reflected this), despite its nautical and very salty location ( especially southern Brooklyn), why is it that numbers-wise, many New Yorkers fail to appreciate and enjoy its maritime influences?

— Posted by Vic the Brooklynite

Unlike almost any other city on the water, New York — not just Brooklyn — has lost its relationship with much of its natural environment. While recreational boating thrives in San Diego, Seattle and San Francisco, New York City planners, after they rediscovered the waterfront when commercial uses declined in the 1950s, only consider it a convenient location for parks, restaurants and real estate development. Indeed, much of the Hudson shoreline on either side is built with explicit hostility to recreational boating.

The kayakers have done much to create accessibility to the water itself, but sailing requires more extensive facilities that municipalities all along the lower Hudson have declined, with few exceptions, to make. For example, Pier A in Hoboken was built at great cost by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey precisely so that no boat could dock at it. Much of the Hudson River Park is built without fendering or other amenities to accommodate boating. Community Board 2 , whose territory includes the West Village, declined to allow a commercial marina below Pier 40 at West Houston Street, because a marina would interfere with sunset views, according to at least on person who testified at a hearing.

A sea change about our waterfront is greatly wanted. Compare the density of recreational boating in, say, Annapolis, Md., with New York City: almost every available waterfront parcel is related to boating of some kind. In Hudson Harbor, you can go miles between places where a boat may safely land.

Any good sailing options here in Brooklyn ?

— Posted by Brooklyn-Sail

There are only a few private yacht clubs on Sheepshead Bay. But there is a venerable sailing organization, the American Small Craft Association , known as Tasca, on Meadow Lake in Corona Park, Queens.

Coincidentally, I also learned how to sail on the South River, in Galesville. After starting a sailing team with some friends at Southern High School I also went on to sail for Columbia. What is the process for someone like me, with substantial dinghy experience and a fair amount of keelboat (mostly J24) experience, to take out a keelboat in New York Harbor? Thanks.

— Posted by devin

You will have to join one of the several sailing organizations in Manhattan, Jersey City, Hoboken or Weehawken. Some New Jersey facilities are only about 10 minutes by bus from the Port Authority Bus Terminal at West 41st Street and Eighth Avenue.

Can I anchor a sailboat in the Hudson River without any license or other permission? Clearly I can’t tie up at the 79th Street Boat Basin, but can I drop anchor a bit north?

— Posted by Free Boater

You may anchor almost anyplace where you do not interfere utterly with maritime traffic. Note the barges anchored midriver in the Hudson off Manhattan or in the Upper Bay.

However, the stretch along Riverside Park to about West 125th Street is a “special anchorage” under control of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation , as is most of Sheepshead Bay. You will need a permit from the department to anchor there. Almost anywhere else is arguably legal, though you may have a problem if you wish to debark.

We live in Rhode Island and would love to sail our Bristol 35.5 down for a weekend. Are there moorings available anywhere near the city? We are members of the Sakonnet Yacht Club in Little Compton, R.I., and the New Bedford Yacht Club in Padanaram Harbor in Massachusetts.

— Posted by Richard

Given your pedigree, you may anchor at the New York Yacht Club on West 44th Street, between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas. Just kidding: you are evidently not a member. The West 79th Street Boat Basin and the Hudson River Park have a few guest moorings. None of the commercial marinas on the New Jersey side maintain moorings, but you may be able to rent transient slips. See your cruising guide.

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One thing to remember about the East River is that it is not really a river in the usual sense. It is a sluice where the high tide from the Long Island Sound runs down to the low tide in NY Harbor. 6 hours later the high tide in NY Harbor runs down to the low tide in Long Island Sound. So if it isn’t going your way wait a few hours. You can take a very small boat through Hell Gate if the current is with you, even a canoe. Most sailboats, even large ones under power, will not make make it through against a oncoming current.

If you want a truly thrilling experience try going with the current against an oncoming breeze in a small boat like my 14 ft. outboard skiff. The waves build up into incredible haystack looking things with no real direction. Scary.

Larry– Not sure I would encourage anyone to shoot the East River in a small boat. (Kayaks are different.) In addition to the rip, there used to be lots of large objects (no, not bodies–usually) being carried along in the current. Perhaps it’s better now, but I would be cautious, since a small boat is no match for a large timber.

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Indoor and outdoor dining is available in our formal dining room, inviting pub, on the porch and the lawn overlooking Eastchester Bay with spectacular sunsets and a view of the Manhattan skyline.

Dining room and meeting facilities are available for private parties, including weddings and business meetings.  Catering arrangements can be made through the club steward. On-site parking is available to members and their guests. For more information…

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Setting sail, opening doors: Foundation treats kids to club program

Max Martinez, 11, hikes while sailing back to shore at the Sea Cliff yacht club on July 8, 2022, in Sea Cliff, New York. Credit: Brittainy Newman

T he light wind on Hempstead Harbor this summer day was just enough for the boys and girls sailing tiny Optimist dinghies to make a little headway.

It was the second day of Sea Cliff Yacht Club’s seven-week Junior Sailing Program for students ages 8 to 17. But it was the first day the beginners’ group got to sail after completing swimming tests and practicing intentionally capsizing the 7-foot-9 craft on day one.

The majority of the eight novices quickly got the hang of making the Optis, as they’re known, go where they wanted, although several were occasionally confused about which way to turn the rudder to change course.

Most of the 42 participants in the sailing program’s three levels are children of yacht club members. But three enrolled through an unusual route.

While the club members paid $2,685 tuition and either own or rented the required boat for their children, three beginners are attending on scholarship. Their participation was made possible by program co-chair Harvey Bass, a former club commodore — chief officer of the club — who seven years ago created Ranger Sailing Foundation to sponsor children from underserved communities.

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Harvey Bass named Ranger Sailing Foundation in memory of his father, who was an Army Ranger in World War II. Credit: Brittainy Newman

ON THE WATER

On the first day of sailing, scholarship recipients Ly’Anna Ermmarino and her friend Mayra Chandler, both 12 and heading into seventh grade at Glen Cove Middle School, were making the most of the opportunity. Max Martinez, 11, of Glen Cove, joined the program in the second week, after attending lacrosse camp.

The rectangular Opti dinghies can only comfortably hold one small person, so the students sailed solo while getting tips from instructors circling in “crash boats,” on hand to help with mishaps.

Instructor Shepard Stone, 24, glided alongside Mayra’s boat and corrected where she was holding the “main sheet,” the rope that controls the angle of the single sail. Idling alongside Ly’Anna’s boat, Stone told her to move back toward the stern. “That way you will have room to move the tiller both ways,” said the Maine native who has been sailing since he was about 10.

The novices sailed slowly, or drifted under a hot sun when the wind died, until the instructors yielded to pleas to return to the club for swimming.

There would be more excitement in coming days, when the wind inevitably would be stronger, and by the second week the participants would cruise farther on “adventure sails” and compete in races.

Ly’Anna said she had been on a sailboat once before in Oyster Bay when she was about 2 and remembers enjoying it. Already thinking of her future, she said she’s excited about learning to sail “because I think it would be a good skill to know and I might have a higher acceptance rate at some schools.” She thinks she would like to continue sailing and compete in races.

“I like it,” Ly’Anna said, but she was looking forward to sailing with more wind. So far, she said, she wasn’t having trouble controlling the boat. “Everything’s pretty good,” she said.

She added that she hasn’t done a lot of swimming in salt water “because I’ve always been kind of scared of it, so being here is kind of making me get over my fear.”

Capsizing the boat intentionally the day before to learn how to handle such an occurrence while sailing “was pretty scary because it was the first time I have been in the sea or the ocean for a while.” Having done it, she said she felt much more comfortable in the Opti.

Unlike her friend, Mayra had never been boating before. And unlike Ly’Anna, she signed up because “I really like the ocean, and I like swimming.”

Mayra’s initial reaction: “It’s all right. I like it.”

But she, too, was looking forward to windier days. After the first day under sail, she said she understood the mechanics of controlling the boat “a little bit.”

“I need some work, but I get it,” she said, adding that she was looking forward to “going places and moving around more.”

‘I’M HAVING FUN’

“The first couple of days we didn’t get a lot of wind, and the first day we got wind they were definitely a little freaked out,” instructor Stone said of Ly’Anna and Mayra’s first week.

Putting them in a boat together helped, he said. “It seems like they’re starting to get a feel for it and it’s starting to be a lot less scary for them. It seems like they’re having fun now.”

“It was a little scary with the wind and waves combined,” Mayra said after her second week. “Now it’s fine,” she said, adding that she learned to handle the Opti: “I can control it. I learned how to stand up in the boat to steer.”

“It’s just a little scary sometimes when there’s a lot of wind,” Ly’Anna added. “It’s getting better. It’s getting easier than it was in the beginning,” she said of sailing the Opti where she wants. The bottom line: “I’m having fun.”

Stone kicked off July 5, the breezy first day of week two, by having the young sailors launch from the beach, sail out to a buoy by the entrance to Glen Cove Creek and return to make sure they could safely handle the boats — before proceeding for a day of sailing on the open waters of Hempstead Harbor.

Max and the others accomplished the boat handling reasonably well as Stone shouted encouragement and directions from shore. “Pull in the sail a little more,” he yelled to Max and a few of the others.

Max, who will be entering sixth grade at Glen Cove Middle School in the fall, is a relative sailing veteran. He started two years ago at a weeklong program at the nonprofit WaterFront Center in Oyster Bay, sailed in a four-week program on Hempstead Harbor last year and sails regularly with a friend.

“It’s fun,” he said. “It’s relaxing and I really like the water and water sports,” he said, noting water scooters, paddleboarding, kayaking, “and all that stuff.” He said controlling a sailboat has become natural to him, but “I just want to get better.”

FOUNDING THE RANGERS

Bass, 75, created Ranger Sailing Foundation in 2015 to satisfy a desire that emerged after undergoing successful esophageal cancer surgery in 2002.

“I was working at The Green Vale School, which is a very wealthy private school, and I grew up in a poorer neighborhood in Brooklyn,” the Sea Cliff resident related, “and I thought it was time to do a little payback. I started to look at what I was going to do with the rest of my life, and I really enjoy teaching, and I wanted to help kids who had a background like mine when I was growing up.”

Bass also wanted to memorialize his father, who died at 67 in 1987, the year Bass joined the yacht club. “He was all about kids,” Bass said of his father.

“I called it the Ranger Sailing Foundation because he was a decorated Army Ranger who hit the beaches in Normandy in the Second World War and survived a mission that was classified as almost suicidal that day.”

“I took my father out sailing just a couple of times,” Bass said. “When I was young, we took out rowboats and went fishing upstate.”

With donations from foundations and individuals, Ranger Sailing Foundation has provided scholarships for more than a dozen students so far. Bass has raised money to buy several Optimist dinghies and 420s, 13-foot-9 dinghies with two sails that hold two occupants.

“My greatest accomplishment was that the first two sailors I had — Adam Bonilla and Rafael Cruz Villalobos — got jobs last season as junior sailing instructors at Port Washington Yacht Club,” he said. Both are teaching there again this summer.

Bonilla, 18, of Glen Cove, had never sailed before he attended the Sea Cliff program the summer before seventh grade at Glen Cove Middle School.

“It was a great experience,” he said. “I met new people and they become lifelong friends, both students and instructors. In the beginning I felt like an outcast because my color was different and my accent was different. But after two or three weeks I felt welcome.”

Oscar Bonilla, Adam’s father, said, “He loved it. He was so excited. I feel proud of him.” Asked if he could have afforded sailing lessons for his son without the scholarship, Bonilla, a delivery driver for a beer distributor, said “No way! I can’t afford those kind of things.”

Bonilla, whose brother Brian subsequently participated in the program, will attend SUNY New Paltz in the fall, so the foundation is paying for his books for the first year.

BASS' VARIED CAREER

Bass began his career teaching math at an intermediate school in Williamsburg in Brooklyn while studying for his MBA at Baruch College. Then he was hired by Baruch and later worked as a fraud investigator for the New York City Human Resources Administration. He became the head systems administrator for the city’s Department of Investigation and eventually worked for the New York City Transit Authority, where he also headed the systems operation.

After retiring in 2004, Bass worked as a consultant. A two-week project for The Green Vale School led him to a full-time job there, starting in IT, then returning to the classroom to run a “discovery lab,” for pre-K and nursery school children, as well as a robotics class for older students. He’s now completing his doctorate in information science while continuing to teach at the school.

Bass began sailing at 25 after a friend from City Island, in the Bronx, said he had bought a Hobie catamaran. The two assembled the boat and launched it.

“We did not know tacking from jibing, turned it over a few times and figured that maybe we should take some lessons,” Bass said.

They found a Coast Guardsman who “took us out on a 26-foot sailboat that had no motor, so we really had to learn how to sail,” Bass explained. “I’ve been sailing ever since.”

In 1975, he bought his first large sailboat, a 23-footer, and joined Stuyvesant Yacht Club on City Island. Two years later, he traded up to a 28-footer.

Bass moved his boat to a mooring in Manhasset Bay in 1982 before joining the Sea Cliff club in 1987. His current boat is a 37.5-foot Hunter named No No Nanette, inspired by the Broadway musical and his wife, a retired eveningwear designer who also loves to sail. Bass has three grown children. “My girls are both teachers. . . . My son owns a kosher organic farm.”

After becoming co-chair of the junior sailing program in 2004, Bass said, he inundated the club’s board of directors with enough suggestions for improving the program to get a spot on the board. He worked up from treasurer to commodore in 2012, serving for two years in that position.

Shepard Stone, left, and Emma Vandorn are sailing instructors for Sea Cliff Yacht Club's Junior Sailing Program. Credit: Brittainy Newman

FUN COMES FIRST

“I’d like to give a big shoutout to the club for recognizing that it has a responsibility to the community,” Bass said.

The current commodore, Robin Maynard, the first woman in that role, said the yacht club is “thrilled to partner with the Ranger Sailing Foundation to be able to provide the opportunity to sail to underprivileged children.”

“It’s been a great experience for everyone,” she added, with scholarship recipients and members’ children participating in birthday parties and other events and making lasting friendships.

In addition to sailing in the junior program, some of the older and more accomplished young sailors have joined Bass on his boat for evening races. Before he started the foundation, he invited six sailors from the program who were 14 and older to crew his boat in 2007 for the Around Long Island Race, sponsored by the yacht club. Bass said it was the first time a boat competed in the race without an adult crew — and they came in second. He subsequently has taken young crew members a half-dozen times on the race.

Of the young people brought into the program through the Ranger scholarship, Bass said, “I’ve stayed in touch with a couple of them. Some of them have stayed with sailing and some of them moved on. Kids want to do a lot of things, and parents want to put their kids into hockey, tennis and golf, so you have a lot of competition.”

True to Bass’ experience, novice sailor Mayra said she’s not sure whether she’ll continue sailing after this summer. “I like sports,” she said, noting many others competing for her attention.

Those who have raced on the bigger boats tend to stay with the sport, Bass said. “Some move on to racing because they’re motivated to do that. But we don’t emphasize that here. At other clubs, everything is built on racing. A lot of times that turns kids off. The idea is to keep it interesting and challenging.”

Bass said the junior program operates on a simple philosophy: “They’re children, and they need to have fun. If they learn to sail, that’s terrific.”

Colorful Optimist dinghies sit ready for young sailors at Sea Cliff Yacht Club. Credit: Brittainy Newman

GET INVOLVED

Harvey Bass hopes to raise money to buy larger boats that can accommodate several crew to expand the junior sailing program. Tax-deductible donations can be sent to Ranger Sailing Foundation, 42 The Boulevard, Sea Cliff, NY 11579.

Board of Directors

Sally Page Connolly, chair, received her BA from Tufts University, and an MA in German Literature from New York University. She has lived on City Island since 1998, participating in a number of programs on behalf of children, as director of the Junior Sailing program at Stuyvesant Yacht Club and an officer of the City Island Little League. She served as the Deputy Director of Community Affairs for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office for 15 years, organizing community-based events and developing curricula for young adults, and is an advisor for the Police Athletic League. She has lived most of her life on Long Island Sound and is passionate about ensuring its health.

Mike Carew, vice chair, a ten-year veteran of the NYPD’s Scuba team, operates a five-star PADI Training Facility on City Island. He offers scuba diving instruction, scuba certification, and education on all related topics, from open-water scuba lessons to scuba instructor courses, including rescue and ice diving. He also offers adventures such as wreck diving and lobster and fish hunts, and hosts trips to destinations such as the Bahamas, the Florida Keys, and Bonaire.

Barbara Zahm, PhD, treasurer, received her doctorate in anthropology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School in New York in 1980. For many years she was a documentary film and video producer/director for public television and educational distribution. From 1998 to 2017, she served as director of product development and grants for It’s About Time, Inc. (IAT), a niche publisher and global leader in research-based science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curricula programs for kindergarten through college whose programs were mostly funded through National Science Foundation. She has been a City Island resident for over 35 years and is a co-chair of City Island Indivisible and the Hutchinson River Restoration Project.

Barbara Burn Dolensek, secretary, has been a writer and editor for over 50 years, including 15 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as executive editor. She is the author of 14 books, most of them on the subject of animals and gardens (her late husband was chief veterinarian at the Bronx Zoo). She has been a resident of City Island since 1976 and has served as copy editor and reporter for The Island Current since 1984, an executive committee member of the City Island Civic Association since 1992, vice president of the City Island Historical Society and the City Island Nautical Museum since 1995. She lectures locally on City Island history and gives walking tours of the island.

Board Members

Maria Caruso , a luxury travel consultant specializing in ecotourism, has been a resident of City Island for since 2010. She has served as the Director of Tourism for the City Island Chamber of Commerce since 2012, and in 2016, she accepted a tourism award from Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. at the 2016 Bronx Ball. In 2017, Maria organized a group of local volunteers to form a volunteer organization called the City Island Drift that helped launch City Island Oyster Reef, and she is president of City Island Gateway, a local organization that is dedicated to providing waterfront access for the community. She serves on Community Board 10 and in 2018 received the Chippewa Democratic Club’s Outstanding Community Service Award.

Hailey Clancy, PhD, is a retired U.S. Army officer and recent resident of City Island. She earned a master’s degree in environmental toxicology from Cornell University and a doctorate from New York University in molecular toxicology and carcinogenesis. She has a wide range of science interests and has taught courses in chemistry, biology, microbiology, antibiotic resistance, and brewing beer at West Point, Loyola University-New Orleans, and Iona College. A native of the desert southwest, she looks forward to establishing an oyster reef that will create long-lasting benefits for her new island community.

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The windy Russian autumn weather might be a little bit tricky for sailing, but it doesn’t stop brave yachtsmen from all over the world from flocking to Russian capital in the beginning of September when the Moscow Yacht Show commences. The main Russian Yacht exhibition gathers professional and amateur yacht lovers together under the wing of The Royal Yacht Club.

This year it took place for a fourth time already. The exhibition is considered the principal event on the sporting and social calendar. The Moscow Yacht Show 2010 united in one area three of the largest Russian yachts distributors: Ultramarine, Nordmarine and Premium Yachts.

A wide range of yachts were on display for a week. An exhibition showcased yachts both from Russian manufacturers and world famous brands: Azimut, Princess, Ferretti, Pershing, Riviera, Doral, Linssen, etc.

It was a real feast for seafarers as visitors of the show had a unique chance not only to take a look at the newest superyachts before they hit the market, but also to evaluate their driving advantages during the test drive. The show provided an excellent opportunity for yacht enthusiasts to choose and buy a new boat for the next season.

The event started with the grandiose gala evening. It included grand dinner, the concert and professional awards ceremony for achievements in Russian yachting industry. The guests also enjoyed the annual regatta.

Special guest Paolo Vitelli, Azimut Benetti Group president, opened the evening.

Next year organizers assured guests they would bring more yachts, the scale of which will even make oligarch Roman Abramovich envious. Sounds very promising indeed.

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An island with a famous chocolate factory becomes Moscow's newest hot spot.

In the 230 years since its creation, Moscow’s manmade island of Bolotny has vacillated between the glamorous and the glum, variously housing the British ambassador’s residence, a jumble of warehouses, a posh yacht club, and, most famously, the Red October Chocolate Factory, a fragrant landmark for much of the 20th century. In 2008 Red October moved outside the city; later that year, its cavernous headquarters was colonized by heiress Maria Baibakova’s nonprofit exhibition space, Baibakov Art Projects, which established the island as an art-world hot spot. Baibakova has since moved on, but the city’s young and fashionable continue to arrive in droves to dance, dine, gallery-hop, and take in the stellar views of the Moscow skyline. Here, a few of their favorite haunts.

Rai, a gargoyle-bedecked nightclub, can hold up to 2,500 people—and the line outside can seem just as long thanks to its merciless feis kontrol, the process of screening patrons for attractiveness and wealth. Those who do make it inside will find blasting techno, lasers bouncing off mirrored walls, and mermaids and fire-breathers for entertainment (7.495.364.01.01, raiclub.ru” target=”new”>raiclub.ru). Nearby is Rolling Stone Tattoo & Bar , a club where the feis kontrol is a bit more forgiving and the music substantially more eclectic (7.495.504.09.33, rstattoo.ru ).

Created to educate the next generation of architects and designers, the Strelka Institute opened this past May in what used to be Red October’s candy store and garage. Its one-year master’s program, which kicks off this month, was designed in part by Rem Koolhaas, who will visit bimonthly to teach. Students and nonstudents alike can watch films and listen to lectures in the outdoor amphitheater. The restaurant (pictured), which overlooks the gold onion domes of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, offers fruit-studded bulgur and Thai shrimp soup. The downstairs bar serves high-end cocktails, still a novelty in this vodka-loving town (7.495.771.74.37, strelkainstitute.com ).

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Located up a flight of dusty stairs in one of Red October’s old factory buildings, the October Boxing Club (pictured) boasts a clientele that includes some of Russia’s most famous TV personalities. Every day after work, a steady stream of Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank traders shows up to beat the stress out of one another (7.499.995.07.97, bcoctober.com ).

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Within the walls of Red October (pictured), a number of gallerists are picking up where Baibakova left off. Pobeda Gallery, which helped host this summer’s Biennale for Young Art, shows cutting-edge contemporary photography (7.495.644.03.13, pobeda gallery.com). Mel Space often stages street-art exhibitions in a stark loft (7.499.230.31.09, melspace.ru ). Known for displaying Soviet art from 1920 to 1960, the newly relocated Art Agency Colony is branching out with an exhibit of lush, blurry works by contemporary artist Igor Kormyshev (7.499.788.62.28, no website).

The Comprehensive Guide to Moscow Nightlife

• Posted on April 14, 2018 July 26, 2018
• by Kings of Russia
• 8 minute read

Moscow’s nightlife scene is thriving, and arguably one of the best the world has to offer – top-notch Russian women, coupled with a never-ending list of venues, Moscow has a little bit of something for everyone’s taste. Moscow nightlife is not for the faint of heart – and if you’re coming, you better be ready to go Friday and Saturday night into the early morning.

This comprehensive guide to Moscow nightlife will run you through the nuts and bolts of all you need to know about Moscow’s nightclubs and give you a solid blueprint to operate with during your time in Moscow.

What you need to know before hitting Moscow nightclubs

Prices in moscow nightlife.

Before you head out and start gaming all the sexy Moscow girls , we have to talk money first. Bring plenty because in Moscow you can never bring a big enough bankroll. Remember, you’re the man so making a fuzz of not paying a drink here or there will not go down well.

Luckily most Moscow clubs don’t do cover fees. Some electro clubs will charge 15-20$, depending on their lineup. There’s the odd club with a minimum spend of 20-30$, which you’ll drop on drinks easily. By and large, you can scope out the venues for free, which is a big plus.

Bottle service is a great deal in Moscow. At top-tier clubs, it starts at 1,000$. That’ll go a long way with premium vodka at 250$, especially if you have three or four guys chipping in. Not to mention that it’s a massive status boost for getting girls, especially at high-end clubs.

Without bottle service, you should estimate a budget of 100-150$ per night. That is if you drink a lot and hit the top clubs with the hottest girls. Scale down for less alcohol and more basic places.

Dress code & Face control

Door policy in Moscow is called “face control” and it’s always the guy behind the two gorillas that gives the green light if you’re in or out.

In Moscow nightlife there’s only one rule when it comes to dress codes:

You can never be underdressed.

People dress A LOT sharper than, say, in the US and that goes for both sexes. For high-end clubs, you definitely want to roll with a sharp blazer and a pocket square, not to mention dress shoes in tip-top condition. Those are the minimum requirements to level the playing field vis a vis with other sharply dressed guys that have a lot more money than you do. Unless you plan to hit explicit electro or underground clubs, which have their own dress code, you are always on the money with that style.

Getting in a Moscow club isn’t as hard as it seems: dress sharp, speak English at the door and look like you’re in the mood to spend all that money that you supposedly have (even if you don’t). That will open almost any door in Moscow’s nightlife for you.

Types of Moscow Nightclubs

In Moscow there are four types of clubs with the accompanying female clientele:

High-end clubs:

These are often crossovers between restaurants and clubs with lots of tables and very little space to dance. Heavy accent on bottle service most of the time but you can work the room from the bar as well. The hottest and most expensive girls in Moscow go there. Bring deep pockets and lots of self-confidence and you have a shot at swooping them.

Regular Mid-level clubs:

They probably resemble more what you’re used to in a nightclub: big dancefloors, stages and more space to roam around. Bottle service will make you stand out more but you can also do well without. You can find all types of girls but most will be in the 6-8 range. Your targets should always be the girls drinking and ideally in pairs. It’s impossible not to swoop if your game is at least half-decent.

Basic clubs/dive bars:

Usually spots with very cheap booze and lax face control. If you’re dressed too sharp and speak no Russian, you might attract the wrong type of attention so be vigilant. If you know the local scene you can swoop 6s and 7s almost at will. Usually students and girls from the suburbs.

Electro/underground clubs:

Home of the hipsters and creatives. Parties there don’t mean meeting girls and getting drunk but doing pills and spacing out to the music. Lots of attractive hipster girls if that is your niche. That is its own scene with a different dress code as well.

What time to go out in Moscow

Moscow nightlife starts late. Don’t show up at bars and preparty spots before 11pm because you’ll feel fairly alone. Peak time is between 1am and 3am. That is also the time of Moscow nightlife’s biggest nuisance: concerts by artists you won’t know and who only distract your girls from drinking and being gamed. From 4am to 6am the regular clubs are emptying out but plenty of people, women included, still hit up one of the many afterparty clubs. Those last till well past 10am.

As far as days go: Fridays and Saturdays are peak days. Thursday is an OK day, all other days are fairly weak and you have to know the right venues.

The Ultimate Moscow Nightclub List

Short disclaimer: I didn’t add basic and electro clubs since you’re coming for the girls, not for the music. This list will give you more options than you’ll be able to handle on a weekend.

Preparty – start here at 11PM

Classic restaurant club with lots of tables and a smallish bar and dancefloor. Come here between 11pm and 12am when the concert is over and they start with the actual party. Even early in the night tons of sexy women here, who lean slightly older (25 and up).

The second floor of the Ugolek restaurant is an extra bar with dim lights and house music tunes. Very small and cozy with a slight hipster vibe but generally draws plenty of attractive women too. A bit slower vibe than Valenok.

Very cool, spread-out venue that has a modern library theme. Not always full with people but when it is, it’s brimming with top-tier women. Slow vibe here and better for grabbing contacts and moving on.

High-end: err on the side of being too early rather than too late because of face control.

Secret Room

Probably the top venue at the moment in Moscow . Very small but wildly popular club, which is crammed with tables but always packed. They do parties on Thursdays and Sundays as well. This club has a hip-hop/high-end theme, meaning most girls are gold diggers, IG models, and tattooed hip hop chicks. Very unfavorable logistics because there is almost no room no move inside the club but the party vibe makes it worth it. Strict face control.

Close to Secret Room and with a much more favorable and spacious three-part layout. This place attracts very hot women but also lots of ball busters and fakes that will leave you blue-balled. Come early because after 4am it starts getting empty fast. Electronic music.

A slightly kitsch restaurant club that plays Russian pop and is full of gold diggers, semi-pros, and men from the Caucasus republics. Thursday is the strongest night but that dynamic might be changing since Secret Room opened its doors. You can swoop here but it will be a struggle.

Mid-level: your sweet spot in terms of ease and attractiveness of girls for an average budget.

Started going downwards in 2018 due to lax face control and this might get even worse with the World Cup. In terms of layout one of the best Moscow nightclubs because it’s very big and bottle service gives you a good edge here. Still attracts lots of cute girls with loose morals but plenty of provincial girls (and guys) as well. Swooping is fairly easy here.

I haven’t been at this place in over a year, ever since it started becoming ground zero for drunken teenagers. Similar clientele to Icon but less chic, younger and drunker. Decent mainstream music that attracts plenty of tourists. Girls are easy here as well.

Sort of a Coyote Ugly (the real one in Moscow sucks) with party music and lots of drunken people licking each others’ faces. Very entertaining with the right amount of alcohol and very easy to pull in there. Don’t think about staying sober in here, you’ll hate it.

Artel Bessonitsa/Shakti Terrace

Electronic music club that is sort of a high-end place with an underground clientele and located between the teenager clubs Icon and Gipsy. Very good music but a bit all over the place with their vibe and their branding. You can swoop almost any type of girl here from high-heeled beauty to coked-up hipsters, provided they’re not too sober.

Afterparty: if by 5AM  you haven’t pulled, it’s time to move here.

Best afterparty spot in terms of trying to get girls. Pretty much no one is sober in there and savage gorilla game goes a long way. Lots of very hot and slutty-looking girls but it can be hard to tell apart who is looking for dick and who is just on drugs but not interested. If by 9-10am you haven’t pulled, it is probably better to surrender.

The hipster alternative for afterparties, where even more drugs are in play. Plenty of attractive girls there but you have to know how to work this type of club. A nicer atmosphere and better music but if you’re desperate to pull, you’ll probably go to Miks.

Weekday jokers: if you’re on the hunt for some sexy Russian girls during the week, here are two tips to make your life easier.

Chesterfield

Ladies night on Wednesdays means this place gets pretty packed with smashed teenagers and 6s and 7s. Don’t pull out the three-piece suit in here because it’s a “simpler” crowd. Definitely your best shot on Wednesdays.

If you haven’t pulled at Chesterfield, you can throw a Hail Mary and hit up Garage’s Black Music Wednesdays. Fills up really late but there are some cute Black Music groupies in here. Very small club. Thursday through Saturday they do afterparties and you have an excellent shot and swooping girls that are probably high.

Shishas Sferum

This is pretty much your only shot on Mondays and Tuesdays because they offer free or almost free drinks for women. A fairly low-class club where you should watch your drinks. As always the case in Moscow, there will be cute girls here on any day of the week but it’s nowhere near as good as on the weekend.

In a nutshell, that is all you need to know about where to meet Moscow girls in nightlife. There are tons of options, and it all depends on what best fits your style, based on the type of girls that you’re looking for.

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