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The NYCEDC did add the
new Brooklyn Navy Yard ferry
stop to the Astoria line, NYC
Ferry’s first landing at a dedicated
job center. The route will
connect residents, workers
and students to the Navy Yard,
which is one of the city’s premier
manufacturing and innovation
hubs which currently
employs 9,000 people.
“The addition of NYC Ferry
comes at an ideal moment as
we near completion of our largest
expansion since WWII and
reach 20,000 jobs in the next
few years,” Brooklyn Navy
Yard President and CEO David
Ehrenberg said.
Khuzami and his organization
are pleased with the added
connection, while thinking
of more.
“As NYCEDC continues to
expand the service, they’ll be
looking at the Marine Air Terminal
at LaGuardia Airport
and City Councilman Paul Vallone
is trying to get the service
extended to the World’s Fair
Marina in Flushing and maybe
even Bayside,” Khuzami said.
“Hallets Point would make a
great transfer station.”
Vallone held a hearing before
his Economic Development
Committee in May in which
he called for the ferry service
at the World’s Fair Marina,
which is being reconstructed
to upgrade the deteriorated
fixed piers, floating docks, and
related components damaged
by Superstorm Sandy.
“As we continuously look
for ways to meet the extraordinary
demand for public transit,
our city should look to ride the
wave of ferry service, which
brings a viable transportation
option to areas of our city like
Northeast Queens that are difficult
to access and lack subway
access and reliable bus
service,” Vallone said.
Transportation advocate
and historian Larry Penner,
who worked for the Federal
Transit Administration for
more than three decades,
warns that ferry service will
become more and more necessary
in Flushing, which is explosive
growth.
“The Flushing 7 line is running
at 100 percent capacity in
both am and pm hours, there
are already 66,000 daily riders
who board at Main Street
Flushing and more are on the
way with the construction
of thousands of new housing
units within a ten block walking
radius of the Main Street
subway station,” Penner said.
“Communities all along the 7
line route especially Queens
Plaza, Hunters Point and
Court Square will be adding
thousands more riders in the
years to come. Riding a ferry
can be less stressful than being
packed in a subway car
like sardines in a can or stuck
on a bus running late in traffic
that’s not moving.”
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