Since your homemade raft probably won't fit in the bathtub, the next best option has to be the East River, right? The Fire Department's Marine Unit 6 rescued an 18-year-old from the river near 87th ...

than 1,000 miles down the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. James Burkart, Libby Hendon and Laura Mattingly have been floating on the raft since July 21, when they embarked on the journey from Missouri ...

In the early 1980s, thousands of people would turn out to watch homemade rafts race down the Susquehanna River — all for a good cause. We pulled a report from May of 1981, which you can watch above.