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The Midtown ferry proved successful until the city made the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT)'s Staten Island Ferry fare-free in mid-1997. [28] As a result, daily ridership on the $5-per-ticket Midtown ferry decreased to 400 passengers, and New York Fast Ferry was unable to make a profit on the route.
Rockaway Park, New York: Connections: New York City Subway: (at Rockaway Park-Beach 116th Street) MTA Bus: Q22, Q35, Q53 SBS, QM16 RES Shuttle Bus; Beach 35th Street RWS Shuttle Bus; Beach 169th Street: Services
A Compilation of the Existing Ferry Leases and Railroad Grants Made by the Corporation of the City of New York, 1866 "Brooklyn Ferries". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 18 July 1870. p. 2. Cudahy, Brian J. (1990). Over and Back: The History of Ferryboats in New York Harbor. New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 9780823212453
[82] [83] On May 1, 2017, NYC Ferry's Rockaway route started operations, and NY Waterway's East River route was transferred over to NYC Ferry operation. [84] The Bay Ridge route began on June 1, a month later, [85] and the Astoria route began on August 29 of the same year. [86]
As of August 6, 2023, $5.60 (Tolls By Mail and non-New York E-ZPass); $2.60 (New York E-ZPass); $4.11 (Mid-Tier NYCSC E-Z Pass) Location The Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge (originally and often referred to as the Marine Parkway Bridge ) is a vertical-lift bridge in New York City , New York , that crosses Rockaway Inlet .
The Kingston-Edmonds ferry will remain its current alternative schedule, with one-boat service for the popular route. Vessels depart roughly every 90 minutes through the day on the holiday and Friday.
In February 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city government would begin NYC Ferry to extend ferry transportation to traditionally underserved communities in the city. [5] [6] The ferry opened in May 2017, [7] [8] with the Queens neighborhoods of Rockaway and Astoria served by their eponymous routes.
On that day, the New York Daily News conducted an informal race between the ferry and the combined bus-subway trip between the Rockaways and Wall Street; the bus-subway trip utilized the Q35 route between Riis Park and Flatbush Avenue, and the 2 subway route to Manhattan. [71] The Q35 bus stop at the foot of the Marine Parkway Bridge near Roxbury