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Water Taxi to Suspend Service
Original photo: Gowanus Lounge The New York Water Taxi notified its customers today that is suspending East River service effective 1 January 2008. Commuter service will not resume until 1 May 2008. In a flyer handed out to patrons this evening, NYWT cited noted that it “broke even during the spring, summer and fall when…
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Subsidized Water Taxis?
Buried in this NY1 story is some potentially great news: a subsidized water taxi route to Williamsburg. The Water Taxi ™ is one of my preferred routes to Manhattan (after two-wheeling), but it is definitely a) expensive, b) limited in service times, and c) only geographically appropriate to a few. It looks as though the…
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Water Taxi
The Real Deal: Some developers pay water taxi operators annual subsidies to guarantee they get docking barges and stops. I love the water taxi from Schaeffer Landing (it sure beats the L train), but lately its been unreliable as hell. Just last night the boat was 25 minutes late – the boat that finally showed…
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East River Ferry: Perks on the Horizon
Metro Focus interviews the CEO of the East River Ferry: Ridership last week saw 1,500 riders per day. You use the word drop only in comparison to a robust level of ridership over the summer. It’s interesting how people choose to characterize the numbers. We are very impressed with how commuter ridership has grown through…
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East River Ferry Service Exceeds Expectations
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/nyregion/east-river-ferry-service-exceeds-expectations.html
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Sizing Up the East River Ferry
Like everyone else in the known universe (or so it seems), I’ve been riding the East River Ferry a lot this week. I was a long-time user of the NY Water Taxi, which ran the East River commuter route until the beginning of May1, and I plan on using the ferry when I can to…
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New East River Ferry Launches June 13
East River ferry service map As reported in the Brooklyn Paper this morning (and on Brownstoner), the new East River ferry service is set to begin service in mid June. I met with the operators of the new service a week or so ago, and am very excited about the new service. As you may…
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Expanded Ferry Service Coming in June
Map: NYT More details are emerging on the new expanded East River ferry service, and it is mostly very good news (unless you are NY Water Taxi, which seems to be getting cut out of the picture). This doesn’t solve the myriad transportation issues for Greenpoint and Williamsburg, but for people who can use the service,…
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Without Transit Improvements, NYC Growth Will Stagnate
Over at the Huffington Post, John Petro looks at the transit impacts of the “New Domino”: It is estimated that an underground parking space in New York City costs between $30,000 and $50,000. Even at the lower estimate, that’s $50 million dollars that the developer plans to spend building underground parking. What if instead of…
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Inside and Outside Domino Sugar Refinery
Industrial archaeology is always worth a link, and Gothamist has some photos of the interior of the Domino sugar refinery that are worth a look. Meanwhile, at the media tour yesterday, developer CPC announced that the affordable housing in the new Domino would be permanently affordable. Good on them – that’s a significant improvement from…
