[Source: RightInBayRidge]
The Sunset Ridge Waterfront Alliance has launched a website dedicated to their grassroots effort to bring back ferry service to the 69th Street Veterans Memorial Pier.
As the Brooklyn Paper reports, the group, led by local activist Heather McCown, has been very busy as of late.
[Source: The Brooklyn Paper]
The prospects for a ferry from the 69th Street pier to the Financial District are in a holding pattern, but it was full-speed-ahead on Tuesday as proponents of the service invited passengers on board for a successful dry-run.
Organized by local activists Heather McCown, Adam Wasserman, and Peter Killen, the 20-minute ride from Bay Ridge to Lower Manhattan went off without a hitch.
[Source: News 12]
(11/14/07) BROOKLYN - Residents and local officials hopped on board a ferry out of Bay Ridge Wednesday to test out a Manhattan-bound route that could return to the neighborhood.
The passengers got on for service at the 58th Street Pier and took the 15-minute ride to lower Manhattan. Neighbors and elected officials are hoping the service will come back to the 69th Street Pier, where it took off from 10 years ago.
[Source: Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
BAY RIDGE — It took 15 minutes for a ferry at a 25 mph clip to travel from off the 69th Street Pier in Bay Ridge to the Wall Street Pier 11 on Tuesday afternoon.
The “let’s root and toot for the ferry” test run with a waterborne lunch pep talk served as a preview of what many ferry advocates hope will be the wave of the near-future for Bay Ridge commuters, perhaps as early as this coming spring.
[Source: The Brooklyn Paper]
One resident’s against-the-tide crusade to return ferry service to the 69th Street pier may finally be hitting smoother waters.
On Oct. 1, transportation activist Heather McCown sent Mayor Bloomberg a 1,400-signature petition that demanded a ferry from the 69th Street pier to Lower Manhattan — and last Wednesday, the mayor’s office responded with a message of its own: Give us eight weeks.
The Department of Transportation told McCown that a final decision would be made “by the end of December, 2007.”
