Carteret Releases New Photos Of How Its Ferry Terminal Will Look

CARTERET, NJ — On Friday, the town of Carteret released more new renderings of how its proposed ferry terminal on the Arthur Kill will look.

Carteret held a groundbreaking for the ferry terminal Friday, which was attended by Mayor Dan Reiman, Gov. Phil Murphy, NJ Transportation Commissioner Francis O’Connor and NJ Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin.

The ferry terminal will be built on a brownfield site that used to be owned by DuPont chemical company next to Waterfront Park on the Arthur Kill, located at 200 Middlesex Avenue. It will be a four-story 52,000-square-foot ferry terminal with a ticketing area, restrooms, leasable office space, restaurants, retail, rooftop space open to the public, a bar/lounge and an event hall. A 700-space parking lot will be built next door.

Completion is expected by December 2027 and the terminal is expected to open by early 2028 or sooner, but ferry service may be provided earlier than that.

“There will be two to three stops in Manhattan leaving about three or four times a day and arriving back to Carteret three or four times a day,” Mayor Reiman said. “Three or four times in the morning and three or four times in the evening. That’s the initial projection. We’ll increase that as ridership demands.”

A jitney will pick up passengers throughout the town of Carteret, as well as at Rahway and Woodbridge train stations.

“I am proud to deliver the expansion of ferry service to New York City from Carteret,” said Murphy Friday, speaking from the Carteret waterfront. “From the beginning of my administration, we have invested in expanding environmentally friendly transportation infrastructure that provides commuters with more options and reduces traffic on our roads. I am grateful to Mayor Reiman and our partners in Carteret for bringing to life this new transportation hub that will drive economic growth in the area.”

Brockwell and Carrington Contractors of Towaco, NJ, was given the $47-million contract to build the terminal.

To pay for the overall ferry project, the Reiman Administration has secured more than $86 million in federal and state grants. The latest of the grants are:

• A $1.9 million award from the NJ Urban Enterprise Zone Authority toward the retail
• space
• A $5 million grant from Carteret Business Partnership, the Borough’s nonprofit economic
• development agency, which will be award in annual amounts of $1 million for five years
• $5.38 million grant from the Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside Program of the state

Transportation Trust Fund Authority.