News clip: Boats Seek Deal on Disaster Pay

New York City's private ferry and cruise-boat operators are working on a deal to get paid for carrying passengers out of Manhattan during disasters. .....

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News clip: "NY Water Taxi" taking over "Circle Line"

"An agreement has been reached for New York Water Taxi to acquire the assets of Circle Line Harbor Cruise, LLC...."

(Note that this is the _downtown_ sibling, not the one that circumnavigates Manhattan)

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Imperatore's Feb 2008 column about ferries

"... CITY Council Speaker Christine Quinn this week proposed a visionary plan to develop commuter-ferry service linking the boroughs of New York City, offering a new transit alternative for emerging waterfront communities, especially in Brooklyn and Queens.
" Her vision can and must work - it means commutes of less than 10 minutes from the Brooklyn or Queens waterfront to the city's Pier 11 ferry terminal at the foot of Wall Street.
" But the plan needs some tweaking.
" I've shared Quinn's vision since I started NY Waterway 21 years ago. Our Hudson River commuter ferries carry 32,000 people on 21 routes linking New York and New Jersey...."

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Imperatore's earlier column about ferries


"... THE waters surrounding Manhattan are natural highways and a vital transportation link that will help Mayor Bloomberg achieve his visionary congestion-pricing plan.

"The existing capacity of NY Waterway and other private ferry operators can transport more than 90,000 commuters in and out of Manhattan each workday. With added investment in ferries, terminals and buses to link those terminals to other neighborhoods, there's almost no limit to the number of people who could commute by water...."
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Sept 2007 - Rockland Co. to Yonkers, Lower Manhattan.

"... Rockland to Lower Manhattan ferry to begin next week

10:44 AM EDT, August 29, 2007 HAVERSTRAW, N.Y.
A new commuter ferry service between Rockland and Lower Manhattan is scheduled to begin next week.
The ferry service, run by the New York Water Taxi, will be launched from the pier at Haverstraw village at 6:15 a.m. Tuesday,
with a second ferry leaving 55 minutes later. The service will make a stop in Yonkers
before continuing on to the World Financial Center and Pier 11, near Wall Street.
(for details, check the nywatertaxi link a bit lower)

May 2006 - Brooklyn runs to "Fairway".

It's now been a year since Fairway's new store in Red Hook, Brooklyn, was opened to the public.
NY Water Taxi (also listed below) provides ferry service between Fairway and piers in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

For details on the NY Water Taxi schedule, click: here


For the company that runs most of the private ferries in the NYC area, including the majority of those that cross the Hudson River, click: here

And for the company that runs many of the others in the NYC area, including routes between the "Colgate Docks" in Jersey City and Pier 11, and... the brand new Fairway store, click: here

The various NJ Transit groups have a pretty decent collection of stuff for all sorts of options. To get to the main njtransit.com page, click: here


There are a couple of coordinating groups that have web pages with lots of transit travel info.

For the semi-unofficial site, loosely run by Transcom, namely "trips123.com", click: here

For their privately established competitor, "hopstop.com:, click: here

For the NY/NJ Port Authority, which has info on the Hudson River bridges and tunnels, the Hudson and Manhattan Tubes, as well as three and a half area airports, click: here

For the NYC area Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which covers many bridges, the NYC Subway, that something or another on Staten Island, commuter railroads in NY, Ct, and kind-of NJ, and a hefty portion of NYC area buses, click: here

Looking for a transportation alternative? Why not check out the group by that name. To get to their homepage, click: here

And let's not forget those folk who keep an eye on the subway system, namely the Straphanger Campaign. (Hmm, is there a similar organization in NJ?) to check them out, click: here

Want to send us a note? We'll gladly accept suggestions for similar groups to the above. To reach us, click: here