New Ferry Service Between Brooklyn and Guvs Island!
In about half an hour, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will hold a press conference on the waterfront to announce the creation of a new water taxi dock on Pier 6 that will provide direct ferry service between the park and Governors Island. Having…
In about half an hour, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will hold a press conference on the waterfront to announce the creation of a new water taxi dock on Pier 6 that will provide direct ferry service between the park and Governors Island. Having had to shlepp to lower Manhattan last Sunday to access the island, we’re pretty freakin’ psyched about this news! On the jump, check out a current photo of how the park construction is proceeding on Pier 6, click through below.
“tentative and half-baked amenities and services available.”
Any examples? I’m curious to hear from someone who ‘s been there recently. I’m thinking of checking it out. I’m planning to bring my own bike, which I can ride to Pier 6 or to the Whitehall ferry. Anyone know if they will they let me take a bike onto the ferry?
A ferry from Atlantic Ave? That’d be amazing. When does it start?
We’ve been enjoying Gov Island recently, especially biking around Picnic Point, (and getting to the Whitehall ferry in Manhattan isn’t that big a deal if you splurge and rent a bike on the island instead of schlepping your own through the subway). The place is a delight, a sort of happy Twilight Zone, even with (or perhaps because of) the tentative and half-baked amenities and services available. But as I read about the ambitious plans unfolding to increase visitorship, I suspect we’ve been enjoying a brief calm before the inevitable storm, when (like everything cool in NYC) the venue becomes a victim of its own success and a Darwinian contest to psych out the lines and the crowds (i.e. the Soup Nazi paradigm). My advice: Go NOW, before it becomes a New York “tradition” to get on line for the ferry at 5 a.m. and wait 3 hours for a free hammock.
The brooklyn ferry left from Fulton Ferry landing on most saturdays. I hope this new one goes friday, saturday, and sunday.
Rob, you’re describing the difference between a clean beach and a dirty beach, unfortunately. It sucks though when they have to eliminate fun to not have a dump.
this is great. the island has gotten increasingly popular & crowded the last couple years, and the waits for the ferry have gotten longer. this little bit of convenience for brooklyn residents will go a long way.
Pier 6 is end of Atlantic Avenue…probably for many brooklyn people more of a shlepp than ferry terminal in lower manhattan
–which you are making to sound far away.
You dont have to shlepp to lower Manhattan.
Just pick the right day.
http://www.govisland.com/Visit_the_Island/directions.asp
Where is Pier 6?