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 […]

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 […]

The Sunset-Ridge Waterfront Alliance is proud to support
these local events:
Kagero - Music in the Park, City of Water, and Art in the Park!
  
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Wednesday, July 23rd at 7:00pm
Narrows Botanical Gardens is excited to announce that our garden will be the location to hear a FREE and NEW and EXCITING MUSICAL EVENT and hope you can plan […]

[Press Release: Sunset-Ridge Waterfront Alliance]

On Monday, May 5, 2008, Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Quinn will announce the first subsidized ferry service from Rockaways to Lower Manhattan as part of a 5-Borough ferry service initiative of PlaNYC 2030. This service will include a stop at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where the announcement will be made at noon.

This ferry service will be operated by the NY Water Taxi, and will be reinstated as early as Monday, May 12, 2008.

The First Annual Greening the Ridge festival was held on June 22, 2008 on the 69th Street Veteran’s Memorial Pier in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.  This festival brought the community together to celebrate our waterfront and learn about programs and initiatives to make our communities more eco-friendly.

Photo (left to right): Assembly Member Janele Hyer-Spencer, SRWA Board […]

[Source: Gotham Gazette]

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn endorsed the creation of a citywide ferry service and an expansion of a small business insurance program in her State of the City address last week. Now advocates and stakeholders are weighing in, and - for the most part - appear to be praising the proposals.

Last week, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced her support for a five-borough, year-round ferry system that Mayor Bloomberg and the city Department of Transportation are developing. Such a proposal may seem like a pipe dream to many New Yorkers, who have seen ferry service remain fairly stagnant, either from a shortage of funding or an apparent lack of demand.

SRWA pleads for ferry service back to Bay Ridge and Sunset Park
At her State of the City address, Speaker Christine Quinn stated her intentions for a five-borough, year round NYC ferry system (that the mayor has agreed to begin developing). This effort is well received as the first formal statement by City Hall to […]

[Source: Brooklyn Daily Eagle]

BAY RIDGE — State Senator Marty Golden held an appreciation dinner on Jan. 31 at the Bay Ridge Manor to honor all those who volunteered for his events and initiatives this year, including the Halloween Art Walk, the Easter Egg Hunt and summer concert series.

Of course, the other man behind all these popular celebrations is Chip Cafiero, Golden’s longtime friend and event coordinator.

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Many high school groups were also honored — Adelphi Academy, Fontbonne Hall, Fort Hamilton, Xaverian and Brooklyn Tech among them — as well as such community volunteer groups such as […] the Sunset-Ridge Waterfront Alliance.

[Source: Brooklyn Daily Eagle]

Supporters Hope to Restore Service, Say ‘Ferries Are the Wave of the Future’

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

SUNSET PARK — Wave goodbye for awhile to the ferry service between the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park and Wall Street. And say hello to more cars congesting the roads and more riders on cramped subways and express buses.

That’s what faced water taxi commuters on Friday, the first ferry-less day of N.Y. Water Taxi-TFWM Ferry’s service from the 58th Street Public Pier. The service, the owners said regretfully, can no longer be funded.

As the sun set on Thursday over New York Harbor, the last commuter ferry service in Southwest Brooklyn came to a halt, ferry operators said — until further notice, or maybe at least until later this spring. Commuters of what they called “the ferry family” lamented the loss, as ferry travel advocates and owners expressed both outrage for now and hope for the future at a morning rally and on the last Manhattan-Brooklyn run.