Sunset-Ridge Waterfront Alliance

On Tuesday, October 20th, 2009, Councilman Vincent Gentile announced at the 69th Street Pier that he has secured $300,000 for an Eco Dock.  What does this mean to Bay Ridge?  This means that we finally will have access on and off the pier as soon as next year!  According to the Councilman, this access will […]

Read this latest posting from GreenBrooklyn on the status on ferry service for 69th Street Pier.  Click here.

Our new Congressman, Mike McMahon, is dedicated to using the stimulus package to help support the ferry service reinstatement at 69th Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.  Read more here
Please contact his office to show your support for his initiatives:  Jonathan Yedin, Brooklyn Director, (718) 630-5277

By Heather McCown
In a most heroic move, the pilot of USAirways Flight 1549 expertly used the Hudson River as a landing strip yesterday afternoon.  With both of his engines out within minutes of departure, Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger III, knew that he must make a quick decision, or risk the lives of 155 passengers and […]

By Stephen Witt
May 19, 2008
[Source: Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Courier]
Ferry service might return to Red Hook, an area underserved by mass transportation.The waterfront neighborhood, which was a stop for the New York City Water Taxi from March of last year to February 1 of this year, is being studied as a possible stop in a citywide […]

By Helen Klein
May 8, 2008
[Source: CourierLife Publications]
Ferry service is coming back to the Brooklyn Army Terminal.The service will be restored May 12th, as a stop on the new Rockaways to Manhattan route that the city is subsidizing as part of its five-borough ferry initiative announced earlier this year.Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine […]

By Ben Muessig
May 17, 2008
[Source: The Brooklyn Paper]
The new ferry service between Bay Ridge and the Lower Manhattan is a long way from being able to stay afloat without help from the city.
For the just-rechristened boat route to survive after its two-year, $1.1-million city subsidy runs out, 700 commuters will need to be riding it […]

By Ben Muessig
May 10, 2008
[Source: The Brooklyn Paper]
The Bloomberg Administration announced this week that it will provide more than $1 million in subsidies to bring ferry service back to Sunset Park next week.
Ferries will return to Brooklyn Army Terminal on May 12, Bloomberg said, three and a half months after New York Water Taxi terminated […]

By UMAR CHEEMA

Published: May 6, 2008

[Source: The New York Times]

Correction Appended

A subsidized ferry route between southern Queens and Lower Manhattan, via Brooklyn, will begin next week to give commuters another option, the mayor and the City Council announced on Monday.

The two-year pilot Rockaway Service, which will be run by New York Water Taxi, will be financed using $1.1 million allocated by the City Council.

The new route, which begins on May 12, will run from Riis Landing in Breezy Point, Queens, to the Brooklyn Army Terminal to Pier 11 at Wall Street. It will run twice a day in each direction: 5:45 a.m. and 7:45 a.m. from Breezy Point, and 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. from Lower Manhattan. The trip will take about one hour each way. The cost will be $6 per trip.

Separately, New York Water Taxi will restart East River ferry service next month from Pier 11 and 34th Street to Long Island City, Queens, which it suspended in January because of lack of passengers and rising fuel costs. Service to South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, will be restored when a new $1.25 million city-financed launch center being built at Schaefer Landing is completed, Water Taxi officials said in a statement.

By UMAR CHEEMA

Published: May 13, 2008

[Source: The New York Times]

Amid whipping wind and rain and beneath gloomy gray skies, a new ferry service was born yesterday, setting sail from Breezy Point, at the tip of the Rockaways, to Lower Manhattan, with a stop in Brooklyn along the way. A total of 51 commuters were aboard for the first two trips, putting on brave faces and rain-slicked coats, and carrying umbrellas.

“Ferry service will make the very difficult commute between the Rockaways and Manhattan much easier and less expensive,” said Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker. The service leaves from Riis Landing, in Queens, and is being provided by New York Water Taxi. Also along for the maiden voyage were Joseph P. Addabbo Jr., a council member from Queens, and Anthony D. Weiner, a congressman serving Brooklyn and Queens.