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Originally Posted by mrnyc
record ferry ridership —
NYC Ferry Hits Record Ridership At Start Of 2024
Story by BK Reader Staff
The NYC Ferry has had a record-setting start to the year, with more than 1,081,878 riders traveling onboard the system between January 1 and March 31, 2024.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/new...24/ar-BB1lyL4j
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I took the ferry from Bay Ridge to the newly-reopened Governor's Island ferry dock for the Easter Egg hunt about 2.5 weeks back. It was a great route.
My kid's mom refuses to take him on the Subway, even though they live right by the N train. He's still young, so she's afraid that the loud subway noises, crazies, and homeless might scare him at this age. So we choose to only drive, walk, take the ferry, or take the bus.
Another good ferry is the Ikea Ferry from/to Red Hook. We parked at Ikea and took the earliest ferry from Red Hook at 11:20am. We saw a puppet show at the revamped Battery Park, spent some time at the new playground there, and then went back to Pier 11 to take the ferry back to Red Hook.
The catch here is that you only have, at most, a shade under 4 hrs to spend in the city before you need to go back (or a shade under 5 hrs if you take the ferry from Pier 79 at W 39 St). So it's good for a quick jaunt, and it's completely free.
Speaking of ferries and boats, we had to duck into the Whitehall terminal building (SI Ferry) because of the sudden rain on Saturday. Some of the most annoying solicitors around are those Liberty Island ferry salesmen. They constantly ask you if you are going to the Statue of Liberty, and when you ignore them, they keep saying "excuse me, excuse me" as you walk away. Some of them are so aggressive, and they even go inside the Ferry Building to solicit business (which I'm sure is illegal). I suppose I could have been nicer and more direct by saying "no, we are not going to the statue" instead of ignoring them.