New York 1 reports that Chris Monson won The Second Annual Brooklyn Bridge Swim, the 45-minute, 1 kilometer race from the shores of East River Park in Manhattan to Brooklyn Bridge Park. One participant told this to New York 1:
"I thought it’d be cold, but probably 75 degrees, and it felt great, warm. It had a funny taste but tried not to swallow too much."
and more importantly, in the battle of the boroughs, team brooklyn won for the second year in a row.