{"id":817025,"date":"2026-05-23T14:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/817025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:46:16","slug":"nyc-public-beaches-open-for-swimming-memorial-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/817025\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC public beaches open for swimming Memorial Day weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0z27hiefm8rkk845.jpg\" alt=\"Deadly shipyard explosion; LaGuardia Airport sinkhole latest | Good Day Weekend\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>NEW YORK CITY<\/strong> &#8211; Gray skies and some rain weren&#8217;t enough to wash out the unofficial start of summer in New York City!<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NYC public beaches opened for swimming on Saturday, with lifeguards taking their posts despite a soggy Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">All 14 miles of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/facilities\/beaches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">city-run beaches<\/a> in the five boroughs are free and open to the public through September 13.<\/p>\n<p> NYC public beaches <\/p>\n<ul original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Cedar Grove Beach:\u00a0Ebbitts Street and Cedar Grove Avenue, Staten Island<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Coney Island and Brighton Beach:\u00a0Atlantic Ocean, from W. 37th Street to Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Manhattan Beach:\u00a0Atlantic Ocean, Oriental Blvd., from Ocean Avenue to Mackenzie Street, Brooklyn<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Midland Beach and Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk:\u00a0Lower New York Bay, from Fort Wadsworth to Miller Field, Midland Beach, Staten Island<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Orchard Beach and Promenade:\u00a0Long Island Sound in Pelham Bay Park, Bronx<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk:\u00a0Atlantic Ocean, from Beach 9th Street, Far Rockaway, to Beach 149th Street, Neponsit, Queens<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">South Beach:\u00a0Lower New York Bay, from Fort Wadsworth to Miller Field, Midland Beach, Staten Island<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Wolfe&#8217;s Pond Beach:\u00a0Raritan Bay and Prince&#8217;s Bay, Holton to Cornelia Avenues, Staten Island<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials are stressing the importance of water safety after a 17-year-old swimmer went missing in the water off Rockaway Beach in Queens this week.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Swimmers are urged to only go in the water when a lifeguard is on duty, which is daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Color-coded signs displayed at each beach will also indicate its status:<\/p>\n<ul original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Green: Open with swimming and wading permitted.<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Yellow: Advisory with swimming and wading permitted, but not recommended<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Red: Closed with swimming and wading not permitted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">New York City&#8217;s outdoor public pools will open for the summer on June 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information from this article was sourced from NYC Parks.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/good-day\/things-to-do-nyc\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Things to do NYC<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY &#8211; Gray skies and some rain weren&#8217;t enough to wash out the unofficial start of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":817026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,33652,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,37722,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-817025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-good-day","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-things-to-do-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116624437223507852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}