The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports that the Comprehensive Citywide Ferry Study, jointly commissioned by the city's Department of Transportation and Economic Development Corporation, is looking at connecting Brooklyn neighborhoods like Bay Ridge with Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx.Sites are being screened based on waterside conditions like depth and navigability, land-side conditions like existing infrastructure, parking and accessibility, and potential markets.
Planners have been holding town-hall style meetings with communities near proposed sites to get feedback from the locals. One recent meeting was hosted by Sheepshead Bay Councilmember Michael Nelson at Kingsborough Community College in Manhattan Beach.
Eight potential sites are in play: Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Sheepshead Bay, Floyd Bennett Field, Coney Island, Bay Ridge, Red Hook and Atlantic Avenue North.
So far, community reactions to the proposal have been 50/50. Some people -- particularly in Bay Ridge -- are worried about an influx of new people looking for parking.
Some, apparently unfamiliar with MTA service, doubt the need for ferry service.
The idea of expanding ferry service was introduced in 2008 with the Rockaways ferry, which was seen by elected officials as the first stage in a five-borough ferry system.
The article from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
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