Sunset-Ridge Waterfront Alliance

[Source: Brooklyn Daily Eagle]

BROOKLYN — The date when New York Water Taxi will suspend its commuter service from the Brooklyn Army Terminal at 58th Street in Sunset Park to Lower Manhattan’s Pier 11 — Feb. 1 — is approaching fast, and experts agree that something must be done to increase New Yorkers’ ferry ridership.

The Water Taxi company announced the suspension of the service — which will likely be reinstated in May, according to a company spokeswoman — earlier this month. This came on the heels of New York Water Taxi’s suspension of its East River route starting from Fulton Ferry Landing.

[Source: Carter Craft, Director of Programs and Policy, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance]
The Draft Report of the Congestion Mitigation Commission is out and unfortunately it looks like they are missing the boat. Come this Wednesday to the final public hearing and tell them how you think ferries must be a bigger part of our transit mix […]

[Source: Bay Ridge Rover]

Sunset Park’s ferry service from Brooklyn Army Terminal is in danger of being sunk due to dwindling ridership, according to this week’s Brooklyn Eagle.

As it would turn out however, the answer to Sunset Park’s troubled ferry program may very well be in Bay Ridge’s future transportation solution.

Heather McCowen, the Bay Ridge resident turned activist and founder of Sunset-Ridge Waterfront Alliance, who became a key figure in reviving the campaign to restore ferry service to Bay Ridge’s 69th street Pier virtually overnight, may, in the process, also be responsible for saving Sunset Park’s own endangered ferry - something that’s been a key piece of Community Board 7’s longterm waterfront revitalization plan from the get-go.

SRWA founder and Executive Director Heather McCown started circulating a petition to restore ferry service to the Bay Ridge 69th Street Pier Ferry Terminal in July of 2007. Within months the petition had been signed by over 1,400 residents of Bay Ridge and Sunset Park.
The SRWA petition has carried over to the internet, via The […]

[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: 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.

New York City is undergoing a transformation to become a more “sustainable” place for all residents. Sustainability is a term that represents a more environmentally and socially responsible way of living, from transportation choices to energy usage to food choices.
SRWA is committed to engaging the community to live in a more sustainable way. We […]

[SRWA Press Release]

Next Tuesday, November 13, 2007, the Sunset-Ridge Waterfront Alliance is hosting a lunch-cruise for local elected officials from Bay Ridge and Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The lunch is from 1:00-2:00pm. The boat will leave promptly at 1:15pm from the dock.

A brief presentation on ferry service as a viable transportation alternative will ensue, followed by an open discussion over lunch and refreshments.