BY KEVIN DUGGAN
All aboard!
NYC Ferry service returned
to Dumbo at the Brooklyn
waterfront on June 19, following
a more than 10-week,
$4.7-million overhaul of the
pier.
The city’s business-boosting
Economic Development
Corporation, which manages
the waterborne transit system,
moved the berth from Brooklyn
Bridge Park’s Pier 1 to the
nearby Fulton Ferry Landing,
allowing two vessels to dock at
a time instead of just one and
making it easier for skippers
to maneuver the boats amid
East River currents.
It will also enable the fl oating
music venue Bargemusic,
which was previously locked
in by the dock, to be moved out
of its space for maintenance.
EDC closed the stop on
April 5 to set up the new barge,
which also includes a wheelchair
accessible gangway and
more than a dozen massive
fenders in front of the wooden
platform as part of the renovation.
The Dumbo landing will
serve the ferry’s East River
route between Wall Street
and Hunters Point South in
Queens and the South Brooklyn
route, between Corlears
Hook on the Lower East Side
and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
Situated at the foot of Old
Fulton Street, the Fulton
Ferry Landing was the site of
the original Brooklyn Ferry,
which fi rst set sail across the
East River to Manhattan in
1642, and was refurbished into
a cherished open space with
splendid views of the Brooklyn
Bridge and the Big Apple
in 1997.
The 24-year-old pier boasts
railings lined with Walt Whitman’s
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famous poem “Crossing
Brooklyn Ferry,” and bronze
reliefs in the deck depicting
historic scenes, such as local
Native American settlements
and the original sailboat
crossings.
Area preservationists previously
raised concerns about
moving the city’s ferry to the
new location, saying that the
routinely long lines for the
boats and an oyster bar set to
open on the other side of the
pier this summer would leave
little space for folks who don’t
want to spend money on food
or queue for a boat.
They also worried that the
city’s plans to queue people
near the front of the pier will
block access to the poem and
the reliefs.
However, greenspace gurus
with Brooklyn Bridge
Park Corporation, which
manages the Fulton Ferry
Landing, said locals’ fears of
privatization and overcrowding
were unwarranted given
that the dock has been home
to concessions for years and
that it made sense to run the
ferry from a historic docking
location.
The Dumbo pier is one of
A ferry in the East River. Photo by Todd Maisel
three that has been out of operation
in Brooklyn in recent
months, a third of all stops in
the borough serving the heavily
subsidized ferry system.
Further north, EDC is
wrapping up a similar $6.7
million redesign of the South
Williamsburg stop, which
started at the same time and
the agency expects to open
back up later this month.
EDC advises riders to check
the new schedule for the East
River route. Visit www.ferry.
nyc/routes-and-schedules.
ALL ABOARD!
NYC Ferry service returns to Dumbo pier
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