If you see a sea of yellow in the East River tomorrow, don't fret, it's just the thousands and thousands of rubber duckies floating to the finish line. Racing from the Brooklyn Bridge to South Street Seaport in the annual Million Dollar Duck Race, the event will help raise money for the Special Olympics New York branch, and there are still ducks up for adoption! They're still short on their 25,000 duck goal, so why not put your name on a few? The race takes under 90 minutes, and the official rules state that "once the ducks are launched, they are on their own. No attempt to interfere or free any duck is permitted." Live entertainment begins at 11:30 a.m., and the ducks shove off at 6 sharp. Check out some photos from last year's race, when one lucky duck met Marty Markowitz (pictured).
Rubber Ducks Take to the East River Tomorrow!
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Great idea. Too bad their website sticks. I tried twice to adopt a flock and got nothing but errors in return.
The webiste does indeed suck, and I experienced several errors along the way, but I was able to get to the end process and adopt a duck! Eat my dust, suckers!
What happens to all the ducks after the race?
I hope they're going to clean the ducks out of the river after the race. Wouldn't it be funny if the ducks got sucked up by the waterfall pumps?
If you look at pictures of last year's race, all duckies are contained, so they shouldn't have any trouble getting them all out of the water.
Meanwhile, too bad they're so far short of their fundraising goal- I feel like they must not have promoted this event very well, $5 isn't too much for people.