On the morning of Saturday, September 8th, our village of Manhattan came together at Pier 40 to makea huge splash to collectively help uplift the lives of youth in distant corners of the globe. At the first annual fundraiser, “Just Crew It! Rowing for Global Youth Soccer,” co-hosted by the Village Community Boathouse (VCB) and Downtown United Soccer Club (DUSC) Soccer Recycle Project, a diverse group of local firemen, cops, prosecutors, high school students, investment bankers, and chefs joined forces to make global change through the power of rowing and barbecuing.

This event has been made possible with the community support of MLS Works, New York Red Bulls, Modells, Fairway, Trader Joe’s, Western Beef, Starbucks, Marumi restaurant, Junoon restaurant, Celebration and Ral’eau Salsa Dance Company. Finally, we were all grateful to the culinary barbecuing skills of our Marine One firemen.