{"id":111892,"date":"2025-08-02T02:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T02:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111892\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T02:58:09","slug":"nyc-ferry-finally-considering-waterway-connection-between-brooklyn-staten-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111892\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Ferry finally considering waterway connection between Brooklyn, Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

A long-awaited ferry connection between Brooklyn and Staten Island may finally be on the horizon as New York City Ferry looks to make its first-ever overhaul<\/a>\u00a0to the city’s waterborne transit system.<\/p>\n

“It’s a no-brainer, right?”<\/p>\n

A historic ferry once shuttled commuters across the Narrows, but that service was suspended in 1964 following the completion of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.<\/p>\n

Now, NYC Ferry is considering restoring the link by adding a Brooklyn stop along its existing St. George route.<\/p>\n

“For Staten Islanders, transportation into the city is kind of rough,” Staten Island resident Lorraine Ricca said.<\/p>\n

Mike Hughes, who was visiting his daughter in Bay Ridge, welcomed the potential change. His son-in-law commutes to Staten Island for work.<\/p>\n

“It makes it convenient because they jump across and they go on the bus to where they’re going,” he said.<\/p>\n

The idea of reconnecting the two boroughs by water has gained traction in recent years. Last year, CBS News New York’s Hannah Kliger reported on a push by<\/a> Councilmembers Justin Brannan of Brooklyn and Kamillah Hanks of Staten Island.<\/p>\n

“It’s a no-brainer, right?” said Brannan. “Southern Brooklyn and Staten Island have always been connected through family, through school, through the hospitals, through people that work on the island.”<\/p>\n

Ricca agreed, reflecting on her high school days.<\/p>\n

“I used to go to high school at Saint John’s Academy, which is right at the tip of the Verrazano Bridge on Staten Island,” she said. “And I had a lot of friends who lived in Bay Ridge, and their only option was to come by bus or be driven. And that was a bit of a challenge for them. So giving people another way to travel is always great.”<\/p>\n

NYC Ferry plans to implement route changes by end of year<\/p>\n

The proposed Bay Ridge\u2013Staten Island ferry is part of a larger plan to revise NYC Ferry’s system map to address rider complaints, improve efficiency and explore new expansion opportunities.<\/p>\n

“It’s one of those things where if you build it, they will come,” Brannan said. “I think once you see the Staten Island\u2013Bay Ridge Ferry come back, I think you’re going to see it [become] really popular.”<\/p>\n

The proposed service update also includes offering a one-seat ride to Midtown from South Brooklyn and dividing the East River route in two.<\/p>\n

James Wong, executive director of NYC Ferry, noted in a statement: “This map of proposed changes is based on years of rider feedback and operational analysis, and will be a strong starting point as we continue to solicit input from our riders and prepare for this next chapter of NYC Ferry.”<\/p>\n

According to the agency, more than 10,000 people have already submitted responses since the feedback form launched two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Some of those riders are hopeful.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s one more option for a place that doesn’t have sufficient transportation,” said Alan Orenbach, an NYC Ferry user.<\/p>\n

“It’s so hard to get over the bridge many times, and having alternate ways to get to Brooklyn is definitely you know, something that I would definitely look forward to,” added Victor Abriano, a visitor from Staten Island.<\/p>\n

Riders have until Sept. 1 to weigh in by filling out an online survey<\/a>. NYC Ferry plans to review the feedback and implement route changes by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Have a story idea or tip in Brooklyn? Email Hannah by\u00a0CLICKING HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n

Hannah Kliger<\/a><\/p>\n

Hannah Kliger joined the CBS News New York team as a reporter in May 2022, focusing her coverage in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Hannah has received several awards for her investigative journalism about problems plaguing Brooklynites, from hate crimes to housing rental scams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A long-awaited ferry connection between Brooklyn and Staten Island may finally be on the horizon as New York…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,9294,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-111892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-staten-island","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114956933716721170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}