There will be ferry good news for Brooklyn-to-Manhattan trans-river commuters next year, but service to Governors Island on the same timetable is no shore thing.
In 2017, the city’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) plans to launch NYC Ferry Service (CFS) boats on routes they’ve dubbed Rockaway, Astoria and South Brooklyn.
The Rockaway route will begin at a dock in Rockaway and trek around the bottom of Brooklyn, stopping at the Brooklyn Army Terminal before journeying on to Pier 11 at Wall Street in lower Manhattan.
Astoria route ferries will start from Astoria on the Queens waterfront, travel over to Roosevelt Island and then back to Long Island City before crossing the East River to East 34th Street and then Wall Street.
Read the full article on the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.