Stimulus Fairy For Ferry

New York City Water Taxi (NYCWT) rides the waves between Haverstraw in Rockland County, Yonkers and Lower Manhattan’s Financial District. Only a few thousand passengers travel this private line per month yet the federal government approved $2 million for the wet-cab clipper. The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. (LMDC) green-lighted this taxpayer-funded grant. Funding will eventually dry up but NYCWT president, Tom Fox says that won’t sink his business. The city recently approved a new route from Riis Park in the Rockaways to the Brooklyn Army Terminal to Pier 11 in Manhattan. To those who can afford to take advantage of this mode of travel, lucky you. To the rest if us, it seems like we're getting soaked.

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Ferry Service Makes Commuters Merry

Sunset Park residents in Brooklyn and inhabitants in the Rockaways section of Queens now have water ferry service to Wall Street. For only $6 a trip, the commute to lower Manhattan can now be a wet one instead of a wait one on city buses, trains or roads. It'll be the most enjoyable yellow taxi you ever hailed.