East River Ferry

Floating photo exhibit featured aboard East River Ferry
Floating photo exhibit featured aboard East River Ferry
Arts & Music Queens Courier Staff 5/16/2013 at 5:10PM

East River commuters have some new scenery to look at when travelling. A new photo installation series is now on display on three East River Ferry vessels. “Drawn to Water: A Floating Photographic Exhibition” will run for four months on the boats, with a new set of photos opening monthly. “Through the lens of talented [...]

Schumer pushes for expanded ferry service to Astoria
Schumer pushes for expanded ferry service to Astoria
Top Stories Angy Altamirano 4/26/2013 at 9:14AM

Senator Charles Schumer has asked the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) to prioritize funding to bring the East River Ferry to Astoria, the Upper East Side and Brooklyn Bridge Park. “The East River Ferry expansion project can become a ‘Nerd Boat’ that connects our rapidly-expanding tech hubs like Dumbo and [...]

Celebrate East River Ferry’s milestone
Letters Letters 8/02/2012 at 12:21PM

You can learn a lot from the past, when numerous ferries operated to and from lower Manhattan and other locations around NYC. Let us celebrate as East River Ferry ridership reaches the one million mark. Our waterways are an underutilized natural asset that can offer significant transportation alternatives for thousands of New Yorkers. Most of [...]