The Three Minute Miracle

As we mentioned towards the end of July, the Governor's Island Alliance, Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will launch a new ferry service to Governor's Island from Pier 6 (at the end of Atlantic Avenue). The Alliance made a brief announcement on its website saying that the project will use $1 million from Port Authority and $400,000 from city Councilman Bill de Blasio of Brooklyn; it will launch next summer and there are plans for service to other harbor landings. The neat tidbit from the announcement was that the ride to Governor's Island will take only three minutes from Pier 6, as opposed to the seven minutes it takes from southern Manhattan. The blog The Word on Columbia Street wonders, as we do, if the existing service from Fulton landing will continue and what will happen to the proposed Atlantic Basin service from Pier 11.
New Ferry Service Between Brooklyn & Governor's Island [Brownstoner]
New Governor's Island Ferry Coming to Pier 6 [WCS]
Ferry Service to Governor's Island Starts This Weekend [Brownstoner]
Updated Future of the Atlantic Basin [WCS]

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Its little known that when Abraham Lincoln(before he was President) came to Brooklyn to pray at the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, he took the ferry to Atlantic Avenue and not the Fulton Ferry and then walked to the Church. I really think that Pier 6 should be renamed Lincoln landing...in honor of President Lincoln after all the Fulton Street one is named after a slave owner...seems only right...

Posted by: smeyer418 at August 27, 2009 10:21 AM

smeyer - that's really interesting. What's your source for that tidbit?

Posted by: bkre at August 27, 2009 12:33 PM

'hell's in (or going to be in) Governor's Island?

***Bid half off peak comps***

Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at August 27, 2009 1:04 PM

BKRE it a blurb at the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims. As you may know this was Henry Ward Beecher's Church-- a stalwart abolitionist. He was the Brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" of whom Lincoln is supposed to have said "those damn Beecher kids started the Civil War".

Posted by: smeyer418 at August 27, 2009 2:53 PM

A high school's going on Governor's Island!
http://brooklynparentsandteens.blogspot.com/2009/08/harbor-high-school-moving-to-island.html

Posted by: FiredUpReadyToGo at August 29, 2009 11:58 AM

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