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Brooklyn’s newest ferry stop opens at Fort Greene’s Navy Yard
The city opened its newest ferry
stop at Fort Greene’s Navy Yard
on May 20.
The Economic Development Corporation,
the quasi-governmental
agency tasked with growing the
city’s economy that operates the
ferry system, added the only Kings
County landing to the Astoria route,
which sets sail from the northern
hinterlands of Queens and terminates
on the distant isle of Manhattan.
The brand new berth sits adjacent
to the Navy Yard’s Dock 72
and passengers who aren’t tenants
at the industrial complex must enter
at Flushing and Vanderbilt avenues
and pass through Building
77, a spokeswoman for the ferry operator
Hornblower told Community
Board 2’s transportation Committee
on May 16.
“They’re going to allow non-tenants
to walk through Building 77
and there’s going to be a gate that’s
going to be open out the back,” said
Elana Ehrenberg.
The landing is accessible to people
with disabilities and bike-bearing
waterborne commuters will
have to pass through the yard’s
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Clinton Avenue gate and tell the security
guard there that they’re going
to the ferry, according Ehrenberg.
The crossing to Manhattan will
take some 10 minutes and the new
stop will add four minutes to the
route’s overall travel time, totaling
at 45 minutes one way, according to
the agency.
Boats will launch into the East
River between every 25-50 minutes, according
to its new summer schedule .
The Astoria route had an average
daily ridership of 2,728 during
weekdays and 2,421 on weekends
in 2018, according to the agency’s
data .
The new stop is part of Hizzoner’s
latest expansion plan of his beloved
ferry service he announced
last January, which will include
new ports of call in Coney Island ,
the Bronx, and Staten Island.
Borough President Eric Adams
said he believes the new ferry stop
will prove to be an asset to Brooklyn.
“Brooklyn’s waterfront is growing
rapidly as more businesses
choose to come to our borough,” he
said. “We need our transportation
infrastructure to accommodate
this inf lux. The expansion of the
city’s ferry system to the Brooklyn
Navy Yard will help grow the area
and connect local residents to opportunity.
It’s exactly the kind of
forward-thinking transit that will
help juice economic growth in our
borough.”
The city’s newest ferry stop opened at Fort Greene’s Navy Yard in
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