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Multiple ferry lines, including the Staten Island Ferry and SeaStreak, helped in the evacuation. [21] [22] A variety of vessels including tugboats and merchant ships in the New York metropolitan area responded to the emergency calls for evacuations. [23] NY Waterway, with a fleet of 24 boats, moved nearly 150,000 people. [24]
Seastreak is a private ferry company operating in the Port of New York and New Jersey and in New England.It provides high-speed commuter service between points on the Raritan Bayshore in Monmouth County, New Jersey and in Manhattan in New York City as well as special event and sightseeing excursions in the harbor and seasonal service to the New England coast.
SeaStreak, which also operates ferry service from Highlands and Atlantic Highlands to Manhattan's east side, took over the route in December 2022 from NY Waterway, which had run the service for ...
The company expanded its service from Pier 11 to New Jersey to include a new route to Belford in October 2002; this route was subsequently taken over by Seastreak in October 2022. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] IKEA Express ferry operated by New York Water Taxi at Pier 11 in 2008
Folks who’d evacuated Lower Manhattan by ferry — the only means possible at the time — were arriving in droves. After deboarding at the Seastreak Ferry terminal in Highlands, they were bused ...
NY Waterway, or New York Waterway, is a private transportation company running ferry and bus service in the Port of New York and New Jersey and in the Hudson Valley.The company utilizes public-private partnership with agencies such as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Transit, New York City Department of Transportation, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority to ...
The ferry's daily rush hour service was indefinitely suspended on July 1, 2010. [8] In response to transit complications caused by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012, ferry service was revived, though the concession was given to SeaStreak. [9] [10] The route became NYC Ferry's Rockaway ferry route on May 1, 2017. [11] [12]
The Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry, which operates out of Bridgeport roughly 25 miles east of the bridge and which had entered a new car and passenger ferry, the MV Grand Republic, into service three months prior to the collapse, saw a surge in ridership following the collapse, as many travelers traveling between Connecticut and Long Island ...