New York Post: A New Yorker braves the cold to paddleboard on the Hudson River
Stefani Jackenthal drops her paddleboard in the river, steps on and chills. The air temp is near freezing. The water, 36 degrees.
But despite the cold, standup paddleboarding is a comfort to Jackenthal, the way she copes with all the COVID-19 craziness of the past year — the social distancing, the masks, the changes in her business, NTS Wine Tasting.
“The wind goes down,” Jackenthal, 54, told The Post, “and I can hear the Hudson calling me.”
A few times a week in the winter, the former pro cyclist hops on her 1970s Schwinn to pedal from her apartment in the West 70s to Pier 84 Boathouse, at 12th and West 44th, where she stores her board and changes clothes.
