Coney Island Polar Bear Club and Camp Sunshine’s Annual New Year’s Swim, where participants run into the cold water to cleanse themselves and get ready for the New Year on Jan. 1, 2015.

The 121st annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year's Day Plunge welcomed over 4000 swimmers brave enough to take on the freezing Atlantic waters. Dating back to 1903, the event raises funds to ...

The Coney Island Polar Bear Club is the oldest winter bathing organization in the United States. Emma Pesin is a YMCA lifeguard in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Jan. 1, 2025, Coney Island.

The Coney Island Polar Bear Club is the oldest winter bathing organization in the United States. Since 1903, they have been hosting a public New Year's Day Plunge to welcome in the New Year.

To earn a spot in the Coney Island Polar Bear Club, one needs to do more than demonstrate a willingness to charge into the icy waters of the Atlantic. These winter bathers have been swimming (and ...

The Coney Island Polar Bear Club meets every Sunday at the aquarium on the boardwalk. There, in a makeshift clubhouse, they change into swimsuits - even bikinis - and make their way toward the ...

Join in or watch the Coney Island Polar Bear Club’s 122nd Annual New Year’s Day Plunge on Jan. 1 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. The party starts on the Boardwalk at 10 a.m.

The Coney Island Polar Bear Club has been hosting the annual plunge for more than 100 years, raising money for local organizations. File photo by Lloyd Mitchell “We appreciate the generosity of all ...

Hundreds descended on Coney Island Beach to begin 2022 with a bracing bath — by undergoing the Polar Bear Club’s 119th annual plunge. “Well, that will kill off any COVID!” one brave bather ...

Members of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club and other slightly crazed bathers stripped down to their trunks or dressed up in costumes Friday for the annual New Year's Day dip.

Some 1,000 semi-insane people spent New Year’s Day at Coney Island, running into the water at 1 p.m. for the annual Polar Bear Plunge. The temperature was under 50 degrees, but at least it was ...