The Coney Island Polar Bear Club announced this week that its annual New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge raised more than $60,000, benefiting seven local Coney Island non-profits. The event, hosted in ...

Local nonprofit organizations in the Coney Island area were recently awarded a total of over $60,000, thanks to the Coney ...

The city even has a whole club centered around the plunge and setting up events. Though it is set up by members for members, the Coney Island Polar Bear New Year's Day Plunge is open to the public ...

Lustgarten’s group – the Coney Island Polar Bear Club – hosted the first winter water plunge in the United States on New Year’s Day in 1903. The L Street Brownies in South Boston followed ...