NYC Beaches open this Saturday for the Summer 🌊 nycparks maintains 14 miles of beaches in NYC! All of the NYC Parks beaches are *officially* open Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day Weekend, which means they will have lifeguards on duty daily. There are also free sunscreen dispensers. (It’s going to be 90 during the week so sharing ahead of MDW!) *Manhattan and Fort Tilden gets an asterisk because it’s not a NYC Parks beach and you can’t swim in the water but there is sand etc! BROOKLYN Coney Island Beach Brighton Beach Manhattan Beach THE BRONX Orchard Beach (parking fee) QUEENS Rockaway Beach Jacob Riis Beach (large parts under construction) Fort Tilden Beach (*can’t swim b/c no lifeguards) STATEN ISLAND Cedar Grove Beach Midland Beach South Beach Wolfe’s Pond Beach MANHATTAN Gansevoort Peninsula (*can’t swim in the water) LONG ISLAND (some may have parking fee or small fee): Jones Beach Robert Moses Sunken Meadow Heckscher State Park Long Beach ($$) NEW ...