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 […]
[Source: The Brooklyn Paper]
We’ve looked (not so) fondly back on 2007, so now it’s time to look ahead to the people, places and things that will be making news in 2008. Here’s our report, ranked, David Letterman Top Ten style, in order of excitement:
80. The Park Slope Armory, Park Slope: Work to turn this sprawling complex into a recreation center is almost completed — but the city still hasn’t found anyone to run the place.
79. The 69th Street ferry, Bay Ridge: It will only take 22 minutes to get to Manhattan if this grassroots project started by Heather McGowan ever sets sail.
[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.”
