Traffic & Transit
Brooklyn Navy Yard Will Be Added To NYC Ferry Stops
The Navy Yard stop will open this spring and be followed by new stops in Staten Island, Coney Island and the Bronx over the next few years.
FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — The Brooklyn Navy Yard will be the first in a series of new stops that will be added to the NYC Ferry, with new service also coming to Coney Island, Staten Island and the Bronx in the next few years.
The ferry expansion, first announced by Mayor Bill De Blasio in his State of the City address this week, will bring new service lines and stops starting as early as this spring and into 2021. Overall, it will include a $100 million investment from the city for new boats, new landings and improvements to existing landings, ferry officials said.
"The City of New York is expanding NYC Ferry service to serve more waterfront communities where neighborhoods are growing and job centers are burgeoning," ferry officials said in a release.
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First up will be a Brooklyn Navy Yard stop added to the Astoria Route expected in May.
A new route that will connect St. George, Battery Park City and Midtown West will then launch in 2020, followed by a new Coney Island Route in 2021 that will serve Coney Island, Bay Ridge and Wall Street. Later in 2021, the Soundview Route will expand to include a new landing in Throgs Neck in the Bronx.
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Finally, the South Brooklyn Route will be modified in 2021 to start in Sunset Park instead of Bay Ridge. The route will also no longer stop in Dumbo, which will still be accessible via the East River.
"The NYC Ferry expansion to Coney Island is a milestone achievement, a common-sense solution affirming our years of advocacy on behalf of transit-starved residents on the West End and small businesses that depend on tourist activity," Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams tweeted after the announcement.
Ferry officials said the boat's fare will stay pegged to the price of the subway at $2.75 per ride during the expansion and on the new lines. There will still be free transfers up to 90 minutes between ferry routes.
The ferry's ridership is now projected to reach 11 million by 2023, officials said.
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