The Village Community Boathouse (or VCB) is a Manhattan-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting rowing, boat building, environmental stewardship and human-powered recreational boating on the Hudson River and the New York Estuary.

VCB is entirely run by volunteers and financed by donations and modest membership fees.

[1] Free rowing session are offered usually two or three times a week, mostly in the warmer months from April to October, weather permitting.

Mike Davis was the founder of Floating the Apple, the first organisation dedicated to making the waters around New York City accessible to the public.

One of the leading members of the boathouse, Rob Buchanan, is quoted in Mr Davis obituary as saying: “Mike had a kind of Johnny Appleseed vision in which Floating the Apple would spawn a series of spinoff boathouses ....[3]” Among several youth and education related programs are the rowing and navigation classes that the boathouse offers in cooperation with the New York Harbor School for their students.