Fresh push to bring ferry to Bay Ridge and Coney Island
A bipartisan group of elected officials is floating the idea of expanding the city’s East River commuter ferry service to Bay Ridge and Coney Island.
Members of the group include Democratic state Sen. Diane Savino, Democratic Assemblymen Alec Brook-Krasny and Steve Cymbowitz, Democratic Councilman Vincent Gentile, and Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis. They would like to see the East River ferry make stops at the 69th Street Pier in Bay Ridge and at a pier at Coney Island.
The East River Fast Ferry Service has exceeded all passenger projections and has carried more than one million New Yorkers between Queens, North Brooklyn and Manhattan in its first year of operation, the lawmakers said.