Sunset-Ridge Waterfront Alliance

The Center for the Urban Environment is hosting their 4th Annual Green Brooklyn…Green City 2008 Fair & Symposium!
When:  Thursday, September 18th 11:30am-5:30pm
Where:  Brooklyn Borough Hall
How:  FREE!!
Green Brooklyn…Green City 2008 will feature workshops and discussions led by several of the city’s preeminent leaders in sustainable design, green manufacturing, transportation alternatives, energy efficiency, environmental education, and sustainable […]

Join SRWA at the RWA upcoming Benefit Reception and Special Screening of the Documentary Film “City of Water” (produced by Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance & the Municipal Arts Society)
When:  Saturday, September 27th, 2008 from 6:30pm-9:00pm
Where:  Jacob Riis Bathhouse, Rockaway Beach, click here for directions
How:  Dressy Beach Attire
6:30pm  Cocktail Reception with live music * (Ticket needed)
7:30pm  FREE […]

Support the troops & hear great music at the upcoming Sonia Montez concert! 
The Narrows Botanical Gardens presents a FREE, NEW, and EXCITING MUSICAL EVENT! 
Where:  Narrows Botanical Gardens, on Shore Road between 72nd & Bay Ridge Ave. in Brooklyn
When:  Wednesday, August 20th at 7:00pm
Bring a recycled DVD & provide FREE entertainment to the troops in an environmentally […]

The Narrows Botanical Gardens presents a FREE, NEW, and EXCITING MUSICAL EVENT and hope you can plan to come down and enjoy!! 
Music in the Narrows Botanical Gardens Park with KAGERO (Japanese Gypsy Rock Band)  will be a great evening to enjoy the summer weather, with unique and beautiful music.  Bring a chair, blanket, and your friends 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.