Nereid (pronounced NE-re-id) is one of only a few rowing clubs located in the New York metropolitan area.  Due to its excellent location, Nereid attracts a wide variety of members from local high school students to Wall Street's best and brightest.

Our boathouse is located on the Passaic River.  The Passaic is a sheltered river, relatively narrow and therefore calm water conditions prevail. The Passaic provides miles of outstanding rowing.

Nereid has programs for both the novice and competitive rower.  Starting from our Learn-to-Row program to our coached Novice and competitive programs, members find a level that is comfortable and that will encourage them to grow.
 

Nereid's facilities include: men's and women's locker room facilities, meeting rooms, kitchen, sun porch and 2 bays for storing privately-owned and club boats. (Take a virtual tour)  While many members have their own boats, there is club equipment available for sweep rowers and scullers. 

Nereid takes great pride in offering quality shells for its membership.  We are constantly upgrading our equipment.

Two years later, in 1868, the Nereid Boat Club of Newark was incorporated by an act of the state legislature of New Jersey.  Yet club records, recently returned to us, and numerous newspaper articles over the years cited July 10, 1875 as the founding date of our boat club.  The conflicting dates were caused by the organizing of a "new" Nereid Boat Club in Nutley, New Jersey shortly after the Nereid Boat Club of Newark, Inc. ceased functioning.  To further muddy the waters it appears that some of the original Nereids from Newark eventually joined the "new" Nereid Boat Club and conveyed the Newark corporation to the "new" Nereid.  What follows below is the most accurate and best documented recital of the founding of our Nereid Boat Club.

The Nereid Boat Club to which we belong was organized on July 10, 1875 in a place known as Barney's Store on Passaic Avenue, in Franklin (now Nutley, New Jersey) by a group of eight young men.  They were John C. Lloyd, Charles Leverich Webster, William H. Webster, James D. Ferris, Clarence S. Van Houten, J. Roger Kingsland, Joseph Kingsland and William M. McCreery of Belleville.  The first club house was built in 1876 on the property of G. R. Hill located on the west bank of the Passaic River north of what was then known as the North Belleville Bridge, later to be replaced by the current bridge commonly referred to as the Avondale or Park Avenue Bridge.

New quarters were acquired in 1879, a former residence, which the club eventually sold to the African Methodist Church which used the building for many years.  In 1882 the club purchased its third club house from the defunct Woodside Rowing Club.  The Woodside boat house was situated on the east bank of the river south of the Erie Rail Road Bridge, Greenwood Lake Division.  The bridge still exists and has not changed much over the past 124 years.  The Woodside boathouse was renovated by Nereids and eventually floated by barge across the river to Belleville at the foot of Mill Street and just north of the Second River.  Nereid remained in that boathouse and location until its destruction by arson in 1962.