Sunset-Ridge Waterfront Alliance

[Source: Brooklyn Daily Eagle]

Increase in Real Estate Development Leads to More Demand for Ferries

NEW YORK — In her State of the City Address yesterday, City Council President Christine Quinn called for cleaner and more accessible mass transit for NYC residents and visitors.

“With some neighborhoods more than three quarters of a mile from a subway station we need to examine other modes of transportation. It’s only natural to look at our natural highways…our water ways…to move New Yorkers efficiently and sustainably.” “ … this is an idea that came straight from listening to New Yorkers … ” “In the near future we’ll outline our strategy for developing what will be one of the most significant transit initiatives in recent New York City history.”

Ferries often have followed in the wake of real estate development. One answer is at Schaffer Landing in Williamsburg, where the New York Water Taxi company instituted a ferry service after the conversion of the former Schaffer brewery. Development plans for Coney Island, as up-in-the-air as they may be, have also given rise to calls for resumption of ferries from Manhattan, which last ran in the early 1950s.

And without the development of DUMBO, it’s unlikely that New York Water Taxi would have started ferry service from Fulton Ferry Landing.

Read the complete article at Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

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